Neolithic Revolution
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The Neolithic Revolution was the first agricultural revolution—the transition from hunting and gathering communities and bands, to agriculture and settlement. It occurred in various independent prehistoric human societies 10–12 thousand years ago.
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- Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic site in southern Anatolia
- Aşıklı Höyük, in Anatolia, one of the earliest agricultural communities (ca 8200 BC)
- Natufians, a settled culture preceding agriculture
- Original affluent society
- Haplogroup G (Y-DNA)
- Haplogroup J2 (Y-DNA)
- Haplogroup J (mtDNA)
- Neolithic tomb
- Surplus product
- Göbekli Tepe
- Mehrgarh, a Neolithic site in Balochistan
- Other types of agricultural revolutions that have occurred recently:
- Arab Agricultural Revolution (8th–13th centuries)
- British Agricultural Revolution (17th–19th centuries)
- Scottish Agricultural Revolution (18th–19th centuries)
- Green Revolution (1943–late 1970s)
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