Neolithic

A period often characterized by domestication of animals and plants, settlement in permanent villages, and the creation of pottery and weaving.

Dates

c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.

Places

Africa, Oceania, Asia, North America, South America, Europe

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

Neolithic

A period often characterized by domestication of animals and plants, settlement in permanent villages, and the creation of pottery and weaving.

Dates

c. 10,000–2000 B.C.E.

Places

Africa, Oceania, Asia, North America, South America, Europe

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

The Neolithic revolution

Working jade

Chinese jade, an introduction

Jōmon period, an introduction

Jōmon pottery

Art Appreciation: Nature—comparisons and connections

Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 5th–3rd millennia B.C.E.

Works of Art

Rock carvings in Tanum

c. 1700–500 B.C.E.

Orkney

c. 3180–2500 B.C.E.

Brú na Bóinne

c. 3200–3100 B.C.E.

Rock drawings in Valcamonica

c. 8th–1st millennium B.C.E.

The Jericho Skull

c. 8200–7500 B.C.E.

Nuragic architecture at Su Nuraxi Barumini, Sardinia

c. 17th–7th century B.C.E.

Rock-art sites of Tadrart Acacus

12,000 B.C.E.–100 C.E.

Prehistoric rock art in North Africa

10,000 B.C.E–2,000 B.C.E.

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Death and material culture in early China