Where did neolithic come from?

For Europe and the Middle East - Neolithic people or the neolithic culture dates back to ~10.000 B.C. Seen as part of an evolution in life of communities and its changes (Neolitic revolution). Later about 5000 B.C. through the migration of people in and throughout Europe, with their final meeting point in southgermany and around central Rhine. Examples of neolithic culture and its communities are to find in the settlements in crop and stockfarming in Anatolia-catal huyuk (Turkey), and in Palestine.

Neolithic cultures (characterised by domestic crops and livestock, pottery and a settled lifestyle) also developed independently in other areas of the world. For example, in China the Neolithic began around 7000BC.

Through the amount of work put in crop and stockfarming, which was becoming a base for a 'better' civilised lifestyle, wallpaintings and other similar works were gradualy more and more neglected, and bigger spaces for communities were created to live in. Music, singing and dance are becoming a part of peoples new lifestyles aswell as the trade with natural goods, and the change from matriarch to patriarch system. The Word neolithical is diverted from greek neo (new) and lithic (stone, rock) or lithos (lithium). Neolithical or New Stoneage is used referring to the new stone age and the making of polished stone implements.