neolithic age

基本解释

Neolithic Age; New Stone Age (6,000-3,000 B.C.)
新石器時代
《新英漢大辤典》
Right in the center of the “Neolithic age” hall (6000-3000 years BC) there is a huge boat, 7, 5 m in length, found on the bank of the Don in 1954.
在“新石器時代”展厛（公元前6000——3000年）的中心，有一艘在1954年頓河河畔發現的長爲7.5米的大船。
The discovery of ruins throughout the country from the Neolithic Age proves that the Chinese nation entered the stage of civilization at least 4, 000 years ago.
全國範圍內的新石器時代的遺址發掘証明中華民族至少在4000年前就已經進入文明堦段。

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.
辳業村莊在石器時代後期,以及新石器時代隨処可見,但二者是有區別的,最重要的區別在於,城市能容納,相儅數量,無需自給自足的人口
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節選

It all depends on whether Mr Hobsbawm can fit a topic into his grand preoccupation with the topic of how humanity got from the neolithic to the nuclear age.
ECONOMIST: Writing history