Neolithic Revolution as irrigation and deforestation which allowed the production of surplus food. Other developments found very widely are the domestication of animals, pottery, polished stone tools, and rectangular houses. These developments, sometimes called the Neolithic package, provided the basis for centralized administrations and political structures, hierarchical ideologies, depersonalized systems of knowledge (e.g. writing), densely populated settlements, specialization and division of labour, more trade, the development of non-portable art and architecture, and property ownership. The earliest known civilization developed in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia (); its emergence also heralded the beginning of the Bronze Age. The relationship of the above-mentioned Neolithic characteristics
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