The home was an important nexus of activities such as flint knapping (shaping), hideworking, woodworking, and pottery production for Neolithic people, the first humans who farmed the land and lived in substantial domestic buildings. We know this because of the work of researchers such as Dr Ben Chan, who has analysed tools from houses, such as this one in Orkney, Scotland, to find out what changes people went through when they shifted from hunting-and-gathering to farming. He is being funded by EU's Marie S
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