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“The Neolithic Age represents a revolution due to significant changes that took place during this period.” Examine.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Pre-history and Proto-history

The Neolithic — the terminal stage of the Stone Age, roughly 7000 BCE to 1000 BCE in the Indian subcontinent — is conventionally described as a "revolution" because it marks the shift from food-gathering to food production: the domestication of plants and animals, the rise of sedentary village life, and a transformed material culture of…

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  • Coining the Term: Childe's Economic Revolution
  • The Subsistence Shift: Agriculture and Domestication
  • Sedentism and New Forms of Social Organization
  • A Transformed Material Culture: Tools and Pottery
  • Was It Really a "Revolution"?

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