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neolithic revolutionneolithische Revolution (ger.)

  • The first cultivation of plants and domestication of animals, which took place during the Neolithic period and radically changed the structure of prehistoric society; the development of agriculture. (OED 2003)
    culture
    1928

    la révolution néolithique [Footnote: Je veux dire celle qui marque la transition entre l’âge de la pierre polie et celui des métaux.] est la dernière avant celle où nous sommes entrés depuis quelques siècles. […] De la révolution néolithique, on doit placer le centre et le principe dans l’invention de l’agriculture.

    Le Roy, E. (1928). Les origines humaines et l’evolution de l’intelligence: 293.

    1930

    It is only with the ‘neolithic revolution’ and the invention of agriculture that homo sapiens comes on the scene.

    Aronson, M.J. (1930). [Rev. Le Roy, E. (1928). Les origines humaines et l’evolution de l’intelligence]. The Journal of Philosophy 27, 497-500: 499.

    1935

    The first revolutionary advance was made when some group or groups began to cultivate plants and/or breed food animals. […] That revolution in human life may be termed the neolithic revolution.

    Childe, V.G. (1935). Changing methods and aims in prehistory. Presidential address for 1935. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 1, 1-15: 7.

    1936

    The neolithic revolution had initiated the New Stone Age in Egypt and Mesopotamia about 7000 years ago. In Britain or Germany its effects are first perceptible three and a half millennia later, say about 2500 B.C.

    Childe, V.G. (1936). Man Makes Himself (New York 1951): 42.

    1958

    The European population graph would certainly show at the beginning of the New Stone Age a sharp kink and upward bend comparable to what ensued upon the Industrial Revolution in England. That analogy is my excuse for speaking of a ‘Neolithic Revolution’.

    Childe, V.G. (1958). The Prehistory of European Society: 35.