Neolithic revolution

Human beings have made systematic and organized use of natural raw materials since the Neolithic Revolution. However, with the onset of the industrialization, the amount of matter mined and extracted from its natural occurrence has increased to a size which is comparable with the... 

II, 000 and 3000 BC (Figure 7.1). Reasons might be natural climate change, which lead to the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction and/or overkill. As a result, humans became sedentary and started with domestication of plants and animals. This Neolithic revolution was the beginning of agriculture. It was combined with an increase of birth rates and the start of urbanization. It was the begiiming of... 

Fire was employed in many of the early chemical technologies. Fire had been tamed several hundred thousand years before the Neolithic revolution. It is conjectured that initially people merely tended e captured from blazes started by... 

Mira A, Mira A, Pushker R, Rodriguez-Valera F. The Neolithic revolution of bacterial genomes. Trends Microbiol. 2006 14200—206. 

Neolithic revolution dawn of agriculture and settlements, division of labour and creation of states machines and tools made from rocks,minerals and plants found in ttie environment... 

After the Revolution Post-Neolithic Subsistence in Northern Mesopotamia. American Anthropologist 96/1 97-126. 

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