What is the importance of paleolithic to neolithic period?
Go back to “lithic” which means something made of stone or comprised of stone. Paleolithic refers to Old Stone Age and means tools were naturally or roughly shaped stones. There was hunting and gathering, but little or no farming as we know it today. Then there is a Mesolithic Age or Middle Stone Age when humans made tools by shaping them into slightly more finished tools. Other advancements were moving to settled camps and some simple agrarian techniques Neolithic means New Stone Age tools were chipped and finely finished like some of the stone tools we see in recent Native American society or Neolithic European farmers and pretty heavy farming in settled communities. Of course all of this end when metal is made from melted ore rock and tools become shaped and sharpened and we enter the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages in progression to the modern metals we know today. See this Google return for pictures of Neolithic tools and see how finely finished they are. Some chipped edge Neolithic
