• DOI:10.1086/371778
Corpus ID: 161307683

Most Ancient Egypt: Chapter III. The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Communities of Northern Egypt

@article{Hayes1964MostAE,
  title={Most Ancient Egypt: Chapter III. The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Communities of Northern Egypt},
  author={W. Hayes},
  journal={Journal of Near Eastern Studies},
  year={1964},
  volume={23},
  pages={217 - 272}
}

• W. Hayes
• Published 1964
• History
• Journal of Near Eastern Studies

IT will have become apparent that such terms as "Paleolithic" and "Mesolithic" do not imply "absolute periods of time," but are simply designations of broad and often overlapping stages of cultural development as observed at various times in various individual localities. This is true also, and to an equal degree, of the so-called Neolithic, or New Stone Age, a phase in man's cultural evolution which in the Near East extended roughly from 7500 to 3000 B.C., in Britain from 2500 to 1800 B.C… Expand

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