The Neolithic period is marked by the period between 10,000 and 2,000 BCE.It is understood simply as the period of the Neolithic Revolution characterized by the development of technology to aid food harvesting and the domestication of animals.
A characteristic of Neolithic artwork includes hand stenciling, mobiliary art, the construction of temples and shrines, monumental sculpture, and megalith art.
The process of making may have also been a social practice, as found in a Spanish Neolithic painting dating back to around 7,000 BC at the Los Machos site.
Neolithic art also appears in Australia, Africa, and Oceania regions in the form of petroglyphs, rock art, Neolithic drawings, and minimal cave paintings.
Other forms of Neolithic art included megalithic architecture as seen in the Egyptian pyramids and other famous structures such as the Gobekli Tepe in Turkey.
Çatalhöyök is one of the most important archaeological sites, which proved fruitful in the excavation of exceptionally well-preserved Neolithic-period art.