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It depends who you ask. Opinions among archaeologists vary. According to the article, Mike Parker Pearson says some land was cleared 5000 BC, but in some areas forest later grew back. David Miles in The Tale of the Axe, 2016, p. 226 says late 5th millennium BC. Barry Cunliffe in Britain Begins, 2012, p. 133 says 4200 BC. This seems to be the consensus according to my very limited trawl of sources.
Dudley Miles (
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15:18, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Yes. There is also the question of how you define the start. If a few communities are doing mixed farming and hunter gathering and the great majority are sticking to the Mesolithic lifestyle for hundreds of years then do you say the Neolithic starts with the first evidence of farming or when it becomes a widespread lifestyle?
Dudley Miles (
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18:25, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
This is the exact answer. Regrettably, too many citations or even sources fail to describe their definition or the details.
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06:38, 22 June 2023 (UTC)reply
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It depends who you ask. Opinions among archaeologists vary. According to the article, Mike Parker Pearson says some land was cleared 5000 BC, but in some areas forest later grew back. David Miles in The Tale of the Axe, 2016, p. 226 says late 5th millennium BC. Barry Cunliffe in Britain Begins, 2012, p. 133 says 4200 BC. This seems to be the consensus according to my very limited trawl of sources.
Dudley Miles (
talk)
15:18, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
Yes. There is also the question of how you define the start. If a few communities are doing mixed farming and hunter gathering and the great majority are sticking to the Mesolithic lifestyle for hundreds of years then do you say the Neolithic starts with the first evidence of farming or when it becomes a widespread lifestyle?
Dudley Miles (
talk)
18:25, 24 October 2021 (UTC)reply
This is the exact answer. Regrettably, too many citations or even sources fail to describe their definition or the details.
HJJHolm (
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06:38, 22 June 2023 (UTC)reply