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The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible. [1]
Map of the spread of farming into Europe up to about 3800 BC Female figure from Tumba Madžari, North Macedonia. The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, c. 7000 BC (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until c. 2000 –1700 BC (the beginning of ...
List of Greek regions by life expectancy. The vast majority of European countries achieved best values in life expectancy in 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic. Greece is rare exception to this pattern - in it, the peak of the average life expectancy occurred in 2018.
The Neolithic saw the invention of agriculture. The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia, Mesopotamia and Africa (c. 10,000 BC to c. 2,000 BC).
Neolithic demographic transition. The Neolithic demographic transition was a period of rapid population growth following the adoption of agriculture by prehistoric societies (the Neolithic Revolution). It was a demographic transition caused by an abrupt increase in birth rates due to the increased food supply and decreased mobility of farmers ...
Data is lacking, but computer models provide the estimate. If a person survived to age 20, they could expect to live around 30 years more. Life expectancy was probably slightly longer for women than men. [33] Life expectancy at age 1 reached 34-41 remaining years for the 67 [29] –75% surviving the first year.
Khirokitia (sometimes spelled Choirokoitia; Greek: Χοιροκοιτία [çiɾociˈti.a], suggested meaning Pig-cradle, from χοίρος 'pig, boar' + κοιτίς 'place of origin, cradle') is an archaeological site on the island of Cyprus dating from the Neolithic age. It has been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1998. [1]
t. e. The Neolithic decline was a rapid collapse in populations between about 3450 and 3000 BCE [1][2] during the Neolithic period in western Eurasia. The specific causes of that broad population decline are still debated. [2] While heavily populated settlements were regularly created, abandoned, and resettled during the Neolithic, after around ...