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
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