What are the differences between the Paleolithic Period and the Neolithic Period?

Answer 1

One of the main differences between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods was in the main methods people used to acquire food. In the Palaeolithic, anatomically modern humans and their ancestors were mainly nomadic hunter gatherers. By the Neolithic people had developed farming, allowing them to live in settlements such as villages and towns. Diet also changed as a result of people eating more cereals and other farmed crops.

Compared to the Neolithic, the Palaeolithic people had a far less complex technology. They used basic stone, bone and antler tools and developments such as art and other forms of "higher culture" only occur in the later stages of the Palaeolithic. Neolithic people mastered the use of many more types of raw material, notably clays to make pottery and the beginnings of metalworking. Exchange and trade networks were also comparatively more developed.

Answer 2

neolithic isn't poor like paleolithic people

It has nothing to do with being poor or rich, as Paleolithic people were often very rich, and we know well that Neolithic ones are sometimes poor...

The Paleolithic and Neolithic are large subdivisions of human prehistory. The Paleolithic dates from the beginning of human evolution until around 10,000 years ago. The Neolithic extends from around 10,000 years ago until the present. So the Paleolithic represents over 99% of our past. Meanwhile, Paleolithic people did not live the same way we, Neolithic people, live.
Paleolithic people lived directly off Natural Resources while transforming nature very little . This means they were consumers of natural resources, not producers of them. In other words, they were not farmers or industrialists like us. We call them (and peoples who still live this way today) "hunter-gatherers". To survive, they hunted, fished and gathered vegetal resources. They made tools and shelters from stone, bone, hides, wood, plants, etc. In addition, hunter-gatherers must be "nomads", meaning that they regularly move across their territory in order to find and procure resources. This is simply because natural resources change with the seasons, and because nature in its natural state can sustain only limited numbers of consumers. So the response of hunter-gatherers is not to produce and stock resources like we do, but to follow their natural cycles. In other words, when they run out, they go elsewhere to find more - and they know exactly where they need to go.
Around 10,000 years ago, in correlation with a global climatic warming, the Neolithic lifestyle was developed. Neolithic people are agriculturalists, meaning that they raise animals and cultivate plants, and thus produce resources. And they transform nature (more and more) intensively. With this lifestyle, people are forced to be sedentary, meaning they live in the same place all year (except during vacation...). So to cover lean times, rather than moving elsewhere, they overproduce and make stocks. So even though we are no longer in prehistory, we are still Neolithic people.
Why did people become Neolithic? Though many researchers work on the question, we still don't have the definitive answer. What we do know is that in the short term it seemed like a great idea because it allowed more people to stay alive - when we transform nature it sustains more people - to and extent... Unfortunately, we have gone quite overboard with this human experiment (in the great scale of human evolution) and are no longer managing it well. We have let populations get to big and we must now transform nature too much to sustain them - so much so that our poor Mother Nature is screaming for relief.
Concerning rich and poor. Yeah, hunter-gatherers sometimes had a hard time finding what they needed, but in general no more than we do. Their lifestyle is not more difficult, just different. And other the other side, are all Neolithic people rich? Certainly not, and more and more of them are in fact poor. Food for thought, no?
This is not to say that everyone must return to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but just to show that knowing how we got to where we are can be useful and maybe help us understand how to improve our future.

Answer 3

The Paleolithic Age, also called the Old Stone Age, lasted from 500,000 B.C. to 10,000 B.C. Simple tools were developed and used, and people groups were mainly nomadic. The Neolithic Age, also called the New Stone Age or the Agricultural Revolution, lasted from about 10,000 B.C. to 3,500 B.C. People groups settled down and developed farms, especially in river valleys.

Answer 4

The differnece between them is one is older paleolithic is 10,000 years ago and neolothic is 1 million years ago. It's amazing! Borat lives in The prawda shell

Answer 5

Palaeolithic is made up of two Greek words 'Paleo' means old and 'lithic' means stone.It was 2,00,00,000 to 12,000 years ago whereas neolithic age is 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

Answer 6

Paleolithic means "Old Stone Age" and neolithic means"New Stone Age