The Neolithic or New Stone Age (5500 – 3500 BC)

From hunter to farmer, from seasonal migration to life in a village community. Over the course of the Neolithic, people’s lives in Europe underwent a profound transformation. There was a fundamental change in the pattern of daily life. People needed new places to settle. They built permanent houses, cultivated fields, reared domestic animals, changed their dietary habits, learned to keep stocks of food, and for this purpose learned to make pottery. As a result of these changes in living conditions the population grew steadily and rapidly.