<P> There are quite a large number of archaeologists who justifiably consider the period of the Late Stone Age to be a neolithic revolution and an economic revolution at the same time . For that is the period when primitive agriculture developed and cattle breeding began . </P> <P> In 1936 a champion came forward who would advance the Neolithic Revolution into the mainstream view: Vere Gordon Childe . After giving the Neolithic Revolution scant mention in his first notable work, the 1928 edition of New Light on the Most Ancient East, Childe made a major presentation in the first edition of Man Makes Himself in 1936 developing Wallace's and Lubbock's theme of the human revolution against the supremacy of nature and supplying detail on two revolutions, the Paleolithic--Neolithic and the Neolithic - Bronze Age, which he called the Second or Urban revolution . </P> <P> Lubbock had been as much of an ethnologist as an archaeologist . The founders of cultural anthropology, such as Tylor and Morgan, were to follow his lead on that . Lubbock created such concepts as savages and barbarians based on the customs of then modern tribesmen and made the presumption that the terms can be applied without serious inaccuracy to the men of the Paleolithic and the Neolithic . Childe broke with this view: </P> <P> The assumption that any savage tribe today is primitive, in the sense that its culture faithfully reflects that of much more ancient men is gratuitous . </P>

Bronze was associated with early cities in every area except