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Neolithic and Prehistoric Britain

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Difference between Neolithic and Prehistoric Britain

Neolithic vs. Prehistoric Britain

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC. Several species of humans have intermittently occupied Britain for almost a million years.

Similarities between Neolithic and Prehistoric Britain

Neolithic and Prehistoric Britain have 28 things in common (in Unionpedia): Adze, Agriculture, Beaker culture, Bronze Age, Causewayed enclosure, Chamber tomb, Cremation, Cursus, Europe, Grooved ware, Henge, Holocene, Hunter-gatherer, Iron Age, Long barrow, Mesolithic, Near East, Neolithic long house, Neolithic Revolution, Orkney, Paleolithic, Skara Brae, Stone tool, Stonehenge, Sweet Track, Town, Tumulus, Younger Dryas.

Adze

The adze (alternative spelling: adz) is a cutting tool shaped somewhat like an axe that dates back to the stone age.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Beaker culture

The Bell-Beaker culture (sometimes shortened to Beaker culture), is the term for a widely scattered archaeological culture of prehistoric western and Central Europe, starting in the late Neolithic or Chalcolithic and running into the early Bronze Age (in British terminology).

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Causewayed enclosure

A causewayed enclosure is a type of large prehistoric earthwork common to the early Neolithic in Europe.

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Chamber tomb

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Cursus

Stonehenge Cursus, Wiltshire Dorset Cursus terminal on Thickthorn Down, Dorset Cursus monuments are Neolithic structures which represent some of the oldest prehistoric monumental structures of the Islands of Britain and Ireland.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Grooved ware

Grooved ware is the name given to a pottery style of the British Neolithic.

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Henge

There are three related types of Neolithic earthwork that are all sometimes loosely called henges.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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Long barrow

A long barrow is a rectangular or trapezoidal tumulus; that is, a prehistoric mound of earth and stones built over a grave or group of graves.

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Mesolithic

In Old World archaeology, Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos "middle"; λίθος, lithos "stone") is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Near East

The Near East is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia.

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Neolithic long house

The 'Neolithic long house' was a long, narrow timber dwelling built by the first farmers in Europe beginning at least as early as the period 5000 to 6000 BC.

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Neolithic Revolution

The Neolithic Revolution, Neolithic Demographic Transition, Agricultural Revolution, or First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly larger population possible.

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Orkney

Orkney (Orkneyjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of Great Britain.

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Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic is a period in human prehistory distinguished by the original development of stone tools that covers c. 95% of human technological prehistory.

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Skara Brae

Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.

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Stone tool

A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone.

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Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.

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Sweet Track

The Sweet Track is an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England.

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Town

A town is a human settlement.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Younger Dryas

The Younger Dryas (c. 12,900 to c. 11,700 years BP) was a return to glacial conditions which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum started receding around 20,000 BP.

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Neolithic and Prehistoric Britain Comparison

Neolithic has 338 relations, while Prehistoric Britain has 208. As they have in common 28, the Jaccard index is 5.13% = 28 / (338 + 208).

References

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