Prehistoric technology Ground and polished stone tools continued to be created and used during the Neolithic period. Numeric record keeping evolved from a system of counting using small clay tokens that began in Sumer about 8000 BC. The Stone Age developed into the Bronze Age after the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic Revolution involved radical changes in agricultural technology which included development of agriculture, animal domestication, and the adoption of permanent settlements. The Bronze Age is characterised by metal smelting of copper and its alloy bronze, an alloy of tin and copper, to create implements and weapons. Polished stone tools continued to be
In the Neolithic Age where Paris roars to-night:— There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And—every—single—one—of—them—is—right!</poem> The collection "The Seven Seas" was praised in the American press by Charles Eliot Norton in the "Atlantic Monthly" and William Dean Howells in "McClure's Magazine". In London the "Saturday Review"'s response was mixed. It begins by considering "In the Neolithic Age" and its two companion tribal singer poems to be "all excessively clever" and an attempt to "instruct the reviewer what to say". The review continues: "No, dear Kipling, there is only one way..." In 1993 Leslie Fish set the poem to music and