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Neolithic

Description: A prehistoric period characterized in many regions by the adoption of agriculture, settled communities, and related changes in technology and society.
Wikidata ID: wiki/Q36422
OpenAlex ID: keywords/neolithic
Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact
2008 · Melinda A. Zeder · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,158
Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China
2004 · Patrick E. McGovern, Juzhong Zhang, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1,091
The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe
2018 · Iñigo Olalde, Selina Brace, et al. · Nature · 749
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Biological Changes in Human Populations with Agriculture
1995 · Clark Spencer Larsen · Annual Review of Anthropology · 735
Cities and economic development: from the dawn of history to the present
1989 · Choice Reviews Online · 730
Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe
2013 · Stephen Shennan, Sean S. Downey, et al. · Nature Communications · 716
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Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding
2008 · Richard P. Evershed, Sebastian Payne, et al. · Nature · 679
Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory
2014 · Cristina Gamba, Eppie R. Jones, et al. · Nature Communications · 667
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From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication
2009 · Carlos A. Driscoll, David W. Macdonald, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 638
Rethinking materiality : the engagement of mind with the material world
2004 · Elizabeth DeMarrais, Christopher Gosden, et al. · 620
The Cradle of Agriculture
2000 · Simcha Lev-Yadun, Avi Gopher, et al. · Science · 619
Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
1953 · Robert C. West, Carl O. Sauer · Economic Geography · 588
The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe
2009 · Yuval Itan, Adam Powell, et al. · PLoS Computational Biology · 568
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Earliest evidence for cheese making in the sixth millennium bc in northern Europe
2012 · Mélanie Salque, Peter I. Bogucki, et al. · Nature · 512
Detection and Molecular Characterization of 9000-Year-Old Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean
2008 · Israel Hershkovitz, Helen D. Donoghue, et al. · PLoS ONE · 505
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Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers
2009 · B. Bramanti, M. G. Thomas, et al. · Science · 504
Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra
2000 · A. M. T. Moore, G. C. Hillman, et al. · 493
Direct chemical evidence for widespread dairying in prehistoric Britain
2003 · M. S. Copley, R. Berstan, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 492
Chronology of the Later Stone Age and Food Production in East Africa
1998 · Stanley H. Ambrose · Journal of Archaeological Science · 492
The Archaeology of China
2012 · Li Liu, Xingcan Chen · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 484
Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China
2020 · Melinda A. Yang, Xuechun Fan, et al. · Science · 473
13C evidence for dietary habits of prehistoric man in Denmark
1981 · Henrik Tauber · Nature · 417
The origins of animal domestication and husbandry: A major change in the history of humanity and the biosphere
2011 · Jean-Denis Vigne · Comptes Rendus Biologies · 416
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
2006 · Charles R. Clement · Economic Botany · 409
Technological Choices: Transformation in Material Cultures Since the Neolithic.
1995 · Charles M. Keller, Pierre Lemonnier · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 407
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Citation count: 225,700
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