Neolithic British Isles what language these early farming people spoke. These migrants brought new ideas, leading to a radical transformation of society and landscape that has been called the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic period in the British Isles was characterised by the adoption of agriculture and sedentary living. To make room for the new farmland, these early agricultural communities undertook mass deforestation across the islands, dramatically and permanently transforming the landscape. At the same time, new types of stone tools requiring more skill began to be produced; new technologies included polishing. The Neolithic also saw the construction of a wide variety of monuments
Neolithic Expansion of the Middle East through the Old World. The Neolithic spread throughout Europe between about 8200 and 6000 years ago. Neolithic Expansion At the beginning of the Holocene, about 12,000 years ago, humanity entered a period of increasing technological sophistication, resulting in the Neolithic Revolution. Breadmaking considerably predates this period, but people in the Middle East now began cultivating wild cereal and pulses. Dogs had been domesticated over thousands of years; nomadic shepherding became possible through domestication of goats, sheep, horses, camels and cattle. About 7,000 years ago, livestock herding was sufficiently established to allow a widespread abandonment of hunter-gathering