What do anthropologist mean by the term neolothic?

Question

What do anthropologist mean by the term neolothic?

Answer 1

It refers to the "new stone age".  This is the time when humans invented pottery and ground-stone tools.  It is also when we see domesticated animals and plants.

Answer 2

Neolithic refers to new stone age.

Neo=new

lithic=stone

there were two previous "stone ages":

Paleolithic is "old stone age"

and the Mesolithic is the "middle stone age"

Answer 3

You need to Google this word.

New Stone Age seems, to me, a misnomer. It is actually that period at the END of the stone age when agriculture and domesticated animals derived.

I find it convenient to think of Neolithic as when agriculture began in Mesopotamia (the actual time would very from location to location probably dependent upon weather paterns).

I believe the oldest site so far is around 7,000 BCE.

Answer 4

it is another delusional term they use to help them believe that the bible, kjv preferred, can not possibly be true and their humanist ideals will persuade mankind they are correct when they are NOT,..

i e a e,..

avatar of the unification,..

Answer 5

The later "stone age" that was just before the earliest written history

Answer 6

The word refers to the new stone age

Answer 7

Pertaining to the period of human culture following the Mesolithic characterized by polished stone implements and a settled  agriculture.