单词 | neolithic revolution |
释义 | > as lemmasNeolithic Revolution Neolithic Revolution n. [after French révolution nélithique, in E. Le Roy Les Origines Humaines et l'Evolution de l'Intelligence (1928) 293] the first cultivation of plants and domestication of animals, which took place during the Neolithic period and radically changed the structure of prehistoric society; the development of agriculture. ΚΠ 1930 Jrnl. Philos. 27 499 It is only with the ‘neolithic revolution’ and the invention of agriculture that homo sapiens comes on the scene. 1958 V. G. Childe Prehist. European Soc. iii. 35 The European population graph would certainly show at the beginning of the New Stone Age a sharp kink and upward bend comparable to what ensued upon the Industrial Revolution in England. That analogy is my excuse for speaking of a ‘Neolithic Revolution’. 1992 P. Bahn Collins Dict. Archaeol. 70 This ‘broad spectrum revolution’..would establish economic, demographic and social conditions conducive to experimentation with domesticable plants and animals, and so stands as a prelude to the ‘Neolithic revolution’. < as lemmas |
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