What are the differences between the Paleo and the Neolithic man?

Question

Please help if you can.

Im doing a report, websites would be nice also.

Answer 1

the first thing you need to do is to identify when the paleolithic and the neolithic actually are - then look at the people around at those times - the rest should come easily if you have been doing the work in class.

Answer 2

sorry,  good luck

Answer 3

As far as I know the only difference was that humans went from hunting and gathering (paleolithic) to farming as well as animal herding (Neolithic). I know that the local library should have some good books on the subject. I agree that you should be cautious about using the internet as a source since your teacher will likely be unwilling to accept what some guy told you online and wikipedia allows people to post things even if they aren't accurate.

Answer 4

Paleo means old. Neo means new...

Answer 5

One's a farmer, one's a hunter/gatherer.  The "lithic" portion of those words refer to stone tools, so they were both using flint or chert tools (as well as bone and other, less hardy, materials).  Archaeologists like to classify people based on what material technology they had, so you get the Stone Age (Paleo/neolithic), the Bronze Age, and we're probably going to end up being the Plastic Age, heh.  However, it was a really huge change when people started farming full-time, so that deserves some sort of differentiation itself, even though the earliest farmers still mostly used stone tools.  That's why you have two stone ages- the Paleolithic, or old stone age, when everyone was still gathering at least part-time, and the Neolithic, or new stone age, when a significant number of people were farming full-time.