Meanings of neolithic period in English

The distribution of each group around the countryside represents the spread of a particular community in the Irish neolithic period.

The world-famous stone circle was built around 2500BC during the late Neolithic Period.

He has a fascination with history and that Neolithic period.

Even during the Neolithic period, the domestic cattle were to a certain extent variable.

These did not change greatly after the Neolithic period.

During the final part of the Neolithic period, people started burying the dead in formal cemeteries.

Even the smaller houses, after the Neolithic period, seem also to have been of stone, plastered within.

There were flint tools from the Neolithic period, Bronze Age weapons, Roman jewellery, even a human bone or two.

Remains of this animal in a domesticated condition have been found in the Swiss lake-dwellings, belonging to the Neolithic period.

We have no means of gauging the age of the Palæolithic Egyptian weapons, as we have for the Neolithic period.

The discovery close to the Brú Na Bóinne World Heritage site dates to the Neolithic period, scientific dating has confirmed.

Avebury is undoubtedly older than Stonehenge and must belong to the true Neolithic period, whether the former does or not.

(But see Chapter VIII, Mesopotamia, whose Neolithic period is similar.)

Herxheim offers rare evidence of cannibalism during Europe's early Neolithic period, when farming first spread, the researchers report in the December Antiquity.

Destruction wreaked along Connacht's coastline in the recent storms has exposed archaeology dating back to the Neolithic period on Connemara's Omey island.

Some local historian dated them back to the Neolithic Period, but said the bronze spears were Roman and the crossbow bolts were Medieval.