This meant that his tools and weapons needed to modified as per requirement. He adopted agriculture, pottery, and animal husbandry as his new occupations rather than hunting and gathering, like he did before. During this time, man abandoned his nomadic ways and settled down in one place. The Neolithic period was the last phase of Stone Age. However, the pattern in changes are more or less the same all over. It lasted from around 10,000 BCE to 2,000 BCE in China, from 7,000 BCE to 4,500 BCE in Egypt, from 10,000 BCE to 3,300 BCE in the East Mediterranean, from 3,000 BCE to 1,800 BCE in northern and eastern parts of Europe, and from 8,000 BCE to 4,500 BCE in India. It took about 1,500 years for Neolithic builders to put it up.Īccording to the Metropolitan Museum Art, the Neolithic period lasted for a varied span in different parts of the world.

Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument and a UNESCO world heritage site since 1986, in England is from the mid-Neolithic era. However, neolithic tools and weapons laid the foundation for many other inventions and tools for the following eras to come. The end of this era brought with it the end of the Stone Age and the rise of the Copper Age. The Neolithic era or the New Stone Age was approximately from 10,000 to 3,000 BCE.

Stone tools made by early man