Heavy Neolithic Heavy Neolithic Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the Epipaleolithic or early Pre-pottery Neolithic at the end of the Stone Age. The type site for the Qaraoun culture is Qaraoun II. The term "Heavy Neolithic" was translated by Lorraine Copeland and Peter J. Wescombe from Henri Fleisch's term ""gros Neolithique"", suggested by Dorothy Garrod (in a letter dated February 1965) for adoption to describe the particular flint industry that was identified at sites near Qaraoun in the Beqaa
Neolithic Italy communities; the most important deposits were located in Sardinia (Monte Arci), at Lipari, Pantelleria and Palmarola. From there it was exported in the Italian peninsula but also in Southern France and in North Africa. The religiosity of the Italian Neolithic groups was centered on the worship of the Mother Goddess of which have been recovered numerous statuettes throughout the entire territory. Later, in the last phase of the Neolithic period, in Sardinia and Val d'Aosta appearead new religious ideologies related to the introduction of Megalithism from the West. Neolithic Italy Neolithic Italy refer to the period that spanned from circa