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The invention of polished stone axes was a major advance that allowed forest clearance on a big scale to create farms. This use of polished stone axes elevated tremendously in the Neolithic, but had been initially used within the preceding Mesolithic in some areas corresponding to Ireland. Agriculture fed bigger populations, and the transition to sedentism allowed concurrently elevating extra children, as infants not wanted to be carried, as nomadic ones must. Additionally, youngsters might contribute labor to the raising of crops extra readily than they might to the hunter-gatherer financial system. Other technological advances made through the Paleolithic period …