Shepherd Neolithic Shepherd Neolithic Shepherd Neolithic is a name given by archaeologists to a style (or industry) of small flint tools from the Hermel plains in the north Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. The Shepherd Neolithic industry has been insufficiently studied and was provisionally named based on a limited typology collected by Jesuit archaeologist "Père" Henri Fleisch. Lorraine Copeland and Peter J. Wescombe suggested it was possibly ""of quite late date"". Shepherd Neolithic material can be found dispersed over a wide area of the north Beqaa Valley in low concentrations. M. Billaux and Henri Fleisch suggested that the flints were of a higher quality
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