Neolithic Regional DevelopmentIn Southwest Asia and Europe, Neolithic cultures appear at ca. 10000 BC in Mesopotamia and the Levant and from there spread to southeast Europe by 7,000 BC, Central Europe by 5.500 BC cal (Linearbandkeramic) and from there through a combination of diffusion of ideas and migration of peoples, spreads westward to northwest Europe by 4500 BC. There is little evidence for developed hierarchies in the Neolithic, which is a cultural development more closely associated with the Bronze Age. In some areas of the world not all of these characteristics are present in cultures defined as Neolithic -- e.g. the earliest farming societies in the Near East do not use pottery -- and in Britain it remains unclear what the contribution of domestic plants was in the earliest Neolithic, or even whether permanently settled communities existed.
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