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The New Stone Age, from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE. examples
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Of or relating to the New Stone Age. quotations examples
Tokens are first identified at around the same time as the local peoples changed from a life based on hunting and gathering to one based on agriculture. The tokens, as Schmandt-Besserat says, "were part and parcel of the Neolithic phenomenon; that is, the so-called agricultural revolution." (Before Writing 41).
2001, Duncan J. Melville, “Tokens: the origin of mathematics”, in Mesopotamian Mathematics, archived from the original on 6 February 2007
... I was fascinated by a pair of stories about a Neolithic girl who wrote the first letter, and invented the first alphabet.
2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28
plural Neolithics
A person who lived during the New Stone Age. quotations examples
For the Neolithics, the stone was flint, and it's still impressive to see what they were able to achieve with it.
2011, Seán Lang, European History For Dummies, page 27