When the Europeans began to explore the islands, they encountered several indigenous populations living at a Neolithic level of technology.

Figure 8 Human skull from a Pre-pottery Neolithic level at Jericho, seventh millennium B.C. The face is plastered and cowrie shells are set in the eye sockets.

Human dental remains from early Neolithic levels at Mehrgarh, Baluchistan.

The peoples of the Americas and the Pacific mostly retained the Neolithic level of tool technology until the time of European contact.

Recently another site near the confluence of Ganges and Yamuna rivers called Jhusi yielded a C14 dating of 7100 BC for its Neolithic levels.

This archeological site has yielded a carbon 14 dating of 7100 BC for its Neolithic levels.

Neolithic levels have been documented at the bottom of the CQ87 souunding.

Neolithic levels revealed evidence of stone-wall footings and a series of distinctive cream, lime-plaster floors.

The Picts described in stories such as the Dark Man, set in the early Middle Ages, portray the Picts as more primitive yet, with a Neolithic level of technology such as flint arrowheads.

Jacques Besançon & Francis Hours later discovered a Palaeolithic layer below the Neolithic level, recovering knives, arrowheads, scrapers and retouched blades along with a fragment of a small, flat, cutting axe.