Neolithic decline information

The Neolithic decline was a rapid collapse in populations between 5000 and 6000 years ago (approximately 3000 BC) during the Neolithic period in western Eurasia. The specific causes of that broad population decline are still debated.^[1] While heavily populated settlements were regularly created, abandoned, and resettled during the Neolithic, after around 5400 years ago, a great number of those settlements were permanently abandoned.^[1] The population decline is associated with worsening agricultural conditions and a decrease in cereal production.^[2] Other suggested causes include the emergence of communicable diseases spread from animals living in close quarters with humans.^[1]

The population increase that preceded the decline between 5950 and 5550 BP was catalysed by the introduction of agriculture,^[2] along with the spread of technologies such as pottery, the wheel, and animal husbandry.^[1] After the Neolithic decline, there were massive human migrations from the Pontic–Caspian steppe into eastern and central Europe, beginning approximately 4600 BP.^[1]

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Neolithic decline

Neolithic

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List of Neolithic cultures of China

Early European Farmers

Bubonic plague

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Heavy Neolithic

Ubaid period

5th millennium BC

7th millennium BC

4th millennium BC

Trihedral Neolithic

Yersinia pestis

Capsian culture

6th millennium BC

Levantine corridor

Neolithic British Isles

Black Death

Khiamian culture

Linear Pottery culture

Halaf culture

Mehrgarh

Peiligang culture

Prehistoric demography

The Neolithic
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Neolithic cultures Fertile Crescent Heavy Neolithic Shepherd Neolithic Trihedral Neolithic Pre-Pottery (A, B) Qaraoun culture Tahunian culture Yarmukian culture Halaf culture Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period Ubaid culture Nile valley Faiyum A culture Tasian culture Merimde culture El Omari culture Maadi culture Badarian culture Amratian culture Europe Arzachena culture Boian culture Butmir culture Cardium pottery culture Cernavodă culture Coțofeni culture Cucuteni–Trypillia culture Danilo culture Dudești culture Gorneşti culture Gumelnița–Karanovo culture Hamangia culture Kakanj culture Khirokitia Linear Pottery culture Malta Temples Ozieri culture Petreşti culture San Ciriaco culture Shulaveri–Shomu culture Sesklo culture Sopot culture Tisza culture Tiszapolgár culture Usatovo culture Varna culture Vinča culture Vučedol culture Neolithic Transylvania Neolithic Southeastern Europe China Peiligang culture Pengtoushan culture Beixin culture Cishan culture Dadiwan culture Houli culture Xinglongwa culture Xinle culture Zhaobaogou culture Hemudu culture Daxi culture Majiabang culture Yangshao culture Hongshan culture Dawenkou culture Songze culture Liangzhu culture Majiayao culture Qujialing culture Longshan culture Baodun culture Shijiahe culture Yueshi culture Neolithic Tibet South Asia Lahuradewa Mehrgarh Marine archaeology in the Gulf of Cambay Bhirrana Rakhigarhi Kalibangan Chopani Mando Jhukar Daimabad Chirand Koldihwa Burzahom Mundigak Brahmagiri Other locations Khiamian culture Jeulmun pottery period Jōmon period Philippine jade culture Capsian culture Savanna Pastoral Neolithic
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