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 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