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Back to the Neolithic. Views from elsewhere (in Ethiopia, China, Amazonia) how several Neolithic revolutions all over the planet have marked the history of Humanity? (Rebroadcast November 30, 2021).
Let’s go back in time to the Neolithic… The Neolithic revolution, this passage from an economy of predation to an economy of production with sedentarization and domestication, animal husbandry and the beginnings of agriculture is today considered as a pivotal event in the history of mankind. A real revolution or, more exactly, a transition to put in the plural because beyond its emergence in the Middle East and its spread in Europe, archaeologists are now bringing to light, on all continents, other sources of parallel and independent innovations in China, Amazonia, Ethiopia…
On the occasion of the symposium organized by theInrap Neolithic Worlds which was held in 2021 at the Musée du Quai Branly, in Paris.
With the archaeologist and professor emeritus at the Collège de France Jean Guilaine and the archaeozoologist at Inrap Stephane Brother.