Secondary products revolution

The secondary products revolution called, according to a theory of British archaeologist Andrew Sherratt (1946-2006), the introduction of intensified use of animal resources, especially their labor power, but also of wool and milk during the Late Neolithic - in southern Central Europe, between about 4300 and 3300 BC it is goods that, unlike meat, can be used without the animal to kill, hence the name.

List of innovations

The innovations in detail:

• Cattle as draft animals
• Plow agriculture
• Wheel and Wagon / Boardwalks
• Domestic horse
• Eggs
• Milk
• Wool
• Grassland grazing

Criticism

There is some debate in the research, how the innovation in question can be correlated in time and can be actually spoke of how a revolution.

The existence of a simultaneous change in all these areas is not recognized in Central Europe and largely refuted by studies of Oliver E. Craig and Mark Drei Raben. J. Lüning It has also issued an unfavorable opinion on this theory. This includes studies on the distribution of lactose intolerance, which indicate that the corresponding gene change is much older. Similarly, the castration of cattle is probably done about 1000 years earlier.