Part 1 of A Crisis in the Neolithic, by Robin Dunbar [WHY Religion Evolved]
CHAPTER 8
A Crisis in the Neolithic
From around 12,000 BP, new developments in the Middle East and elsewhere presage the arrival of the Neolithic, or New Stone Age. Settlements begin to appear in the form of clusters of stone-lined pit houses with clay floors. Initially, these settlements were small in size, but over a matter of a thousand years or so the…