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Planned Construction Neolithic: The Lepenski Vir excavations revealed a Neolithic site that is unique, as far as I know, for planned construction Neolithic construction in Neolithic times. The layers of human habitation at the site are 111/2 ft (31/2 m) thick. They contain the remains of eight different superimposed settlements representing three distinct cultures. In this area near the Danube River are the remains, on bedrock, of a settled community of hunters and gatherers. The original site was later covered by subsequent settlements, ending with Early Neolithic cultures engaged in agriculture and stock-breeding.
The Mayan civilization grew into one of the most complex theocracies the world has ever known. Archaeologists have not been able to determine the exact date when the Maya entered the Neolithic Age, but it was undoubtedly many centuries before Christ. Unlike many other Neolithic peoples, however, these early Maya began building great structures as well as polishing their stone implements.
The earliest Neolithic sites in southeast Europe date from before 6000 BC and are located in areas with the most easily workable soils. Constant settlement on the same location produced the characteristic 'tells' or settlement mounds.
The English archeologist Miles Burkitt ascribed (1920s) to the Neolithic four characteristic traits: grinding and polishing stone tools, the practice of agriculture, the domestication of animals and manufacture of pottery. |
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