The way we live today, settled in homes, close to other people in towns and cities, protected by laws, eating food grown on farms, and with leisure time to learn, explore and invent is all a result of the Neolithic revolution—the development of the technology needed to plant and harvest crops and to domesticate animals.
c. 10,0000 B.C.E. - 2000 B.C.E.
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This beautiful pot was created over 5,000 years ago, and its decoration echoes its shape.
Newgrange is part of an area that contains one of the largest collections of neolithic and megalithic art and culture in the world
These prehistoric carvings reveal the life and beliefs of people in Europe during the Bronze Age.
The monuments at Orkney give a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5,000 years ago.
This is Europe's largest and most important concentration of prehistoric megalithic art.
Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs
Rock art is one of the best records of the life of past peoples who lived across the Sahara.
In the most important development in human history, Neolithic people took the first step toward civilization.
Is the plaster face on this skull modeled after a real person? Is it one of the world’s oldest portraits?
The Nuragic civilization of the island of Sardinia presents a mystery—what were their huge stone towers?
In an ancient North African “rock city,” modern explorers wetted a wall with water—revealing this graceful image.
Jade is a stone that is too hard to carve—to work it, artisans slowly rub away stone with grit.
