Neolithic use of polished or ground stone tools, in contrast to the flaked stone tools used during the Paleolithic era. Neolithic people were skilled farmers, manufacturing a range of tools necessary for the tending, harvesting and processing of crops (such as sickle blades and grinding stones) and food production (e.g. pottery, bone implements). They were also skilled manufacturers of a range of other types of stone tools and ornaments, including projectile points, beads, and statuettes. But what allowed forest clearance on a large scale was the polished stone axe above all other tools. Together with the adze, fashioning wood for shelter,
In the Neolithic Age styles in his poetry. He had also been reluctant to criticize other writers after becoming well known. In 1896, now titled "In the Neolithic Age", the poem was published in Kipling's next volume of poetry, "The Seven Seas". He placed it between two other poems about tribal singers, "The Last Rhyme of True Thomas" and "The Story of Ung". The narrator is a Stone Age tribal singer who reacts badly to criticism of his work. He also deals badly with other artists whose work he dislikes. He kills a younger singer as well as a cave painter. <poem>Then I stripped