What do anthropologist mean by the term neolithic?

Question

what does domestication mean?

Answer 1

Neolithic means new aged or after the stone age. When humans started to form social orders and domesticate plants and animals, it was known as the neolithic revolution. Rather than living in small tribes and following their food to hunt, they started growing their own plants and raising their own animals and settled down. Since they didn't have to constantly look for food, they had time to work on technology such as weapons, tools, buildings, etc. The beginning of the neolithic period is when the first civilizations such as Mesopotamia started to appear and flourish. Basically when humans settled down and advanced their technology.

Answer 2

Neolithic was the final part of the stone age, the time right before man began to commonly use metal tools. It's called so because it is typified by a particular type of complex stone toolkit.

Domestication means to tame animals to the extent that you alter them biologically to live with man. So at first, you had, say, wild dogs [i.e. wolves] living around settlements of people. Soon, humans started to selectively breed dogs for traits they liked, and those traits became common in the population. Eventually, dogs had changed so much that their preferred form of life was living with man. At that point, they're domesticated, and are quite different from their wild forebears.

Answer 3

Neo-new, lithic-stone  It was the last period of the stone ages. It saw domestication of plants and animals. Domicile means home so domestication is homebased or control of plants and animals by people at home and not in the wild. Before people travelled around but this period saw people settle down and began farming and animal breeding, still using stone tools.