Europe Néolitique and Mégalitique (- 3500 to -1800)
The passage of paleolithic to the Neolithic era - the neolithisation - is a set of sometimes radical, but also very progressive modifications economic and social. The Neolithic era is finally only one transition between the world from the hunters-gatherers and that from the history: ours.
During all the paleolithic one, the men knew a remarkably stable lifestyle founded on the gathering, hunting and fishing. Their social organization hardly varied, made more or less wandering small groups, and their industry itself evolved little. Double-side, principal tool of paleolithic, gradually was refined and diversified, but its use remained the same one during more than one million years.