The Neolithic Revolution

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Neolithic Revolution

The shift from the Neolithic Age to the Agriculture Revolution came with many changes as humans had to adjust to new jobs and tools. Market economies evolved and created a new order of living for most of humanity. The positive advancements included a new surplus of food, a higher standard of living, and a more diverse job market. These developments also resulted in negative impacts, which include an abundance of unskilled laborers, increased competition for income and power and a departure of nomadic traditions. The advancements in technology during the Neolithic Revolution resulted in significant changes in the way humans worked, lived, and spent their leisure time.

New technology discovered following the Neolithic Revolution helped advance farmers’ tools. The Stonehenge monument may have been used as a prediction instrument for time. This monument used astronomy as a measuring device “In the 1960s, the astronomer Gerald Hawkins suggested that the cluster of megalithic stones operated as an astronomical calendar, with different points corresponding to astrological phenomena such as solstices, equinoxes and eclipses” (“Stonehenge”). It was hypothesized that Stonehenge may have been used as a solar calendar to track the movements of the sun and moon to signify the changing of the seasons. Stonehenge was a large detailed monument “For centuries, historians and archaeologists have puzzled over the many mysteries of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument that took Neolithic builders an estimated 1,500 years to erect” ("Stonehenge”). It is believed that farmers used this monument built during the Neolithic Age as a calendar to help keep track of their harvest times. The introduction of advanced farming tools impr...

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