Neolithic

But the historical Egyptians were not the first inhabitants of the valley of the Nile.

Not only have Paleolithic implements been found on the plateau of the desert, the relics of Neolithic man have turned up in extraordinary abundance.

When the historical Egyptians arrived with their copper weapons and their system of writing, the land was already occupied by a pastoral people, who had attained a high level of Neolithic culture.

Their implements of flint are the most beautiful and delicately finished that have ever been discovered.

They were able to carve vases of great artistic excellence out of the hardest of stone, and their pottery was of no mean quality.

Long after the country had come into the possession of the historical dynasties, and had even been united into a single monarchy, their settlements continued to exist on the outskirts of the desert, and the Neolithic culture that distinguished them passed only gradually away.

By degrees, however, they intermingled with their conquerors from Asia, and thus formed the Egyptian race of a later day.

But they had already made Egypt what it has been throughout the historical period.

Not even Copper.

Neolithic.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're talking Mesolithic-Neolithic period.

Okay.

So...

An exhibition on ancient Chinese culinary culture is underway at the China Cultural Center in Paris.

Titled 10,000 Years of Culinary Journey, it features over 30 utensils, from Neolithic pottery to Han Dynasty bronze and fine porcelain.

A curator lecture and screenings of the hit documentary A Bite of China are also included.

The two-month exhibition runs through November the 10th.

In the Levant, you have other sanctuaries with oversized stone platforms and retaining walls using huge ashlar blocks.

some of the phoenician coastal cities show phases of construction with megalithic foundations that later greek and roman builders simply reused On Malta, the Neolithic temple complexes, thousands of years older than Baalbek, are composed of enormous stone slabs shaped and positioned with uncanny precision.

In the central Mediterranean, at places like Nurag Hasantu Antin in Sardinia, you find cyclopean towers and walls that predate Roman arrival by many centuries.

Head south to Egypt and the story continues.

Turkish Amateur Radio Society will be active with special callsign TC8KHT.

From Friday 18th until Sunday 20th September, operators will be on the air to promote the historical and cultural significance... of the Neolithic archaeological site Taharan Tepe.

Look for activity on the 80-10 metre bands using CWFT8 and SSB.

Contacts will be possible via the QO100 satellite.

There was nothing powerful about it.

It wasn't like an archetypal piece of sacred geometry in an archetypal Neolithic site.

I think it was...

I think it was a logo for a DAB radio station.

...

it seems very plausible that- Previous civilizations, and quite advanced, have existed before the Neolithic-

Mm-hmm

... and before the most recent Ice Age.

You don't?

I mean-

So you think the Neolithic, Neolitico, you know, the, the agricultural revolution-

Yeah, yeah

You're getting the association of agricultural practices with the auric skull in the placement at the edge of this platform.

I mean, these are the earliest farmers, aren't they? This is the early Neolithic.

This is the beginning of farming in Britain.

From the carbon-14 dating that we've just recently had back, we're looking at it to be about 3500 B.C.,

So that's really early Neolithic.

Very

early.