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N Neolithic domestic economy: The Neolithic period was decisive in the division of labor and division of women in domestic activities. According to the research of prehistorian Gordon Child , a set of critical technologies were the result of domestic activities of women (men in his analysis had the role of hunter / gatherer). Procedures and devices such as the furnace, the alcoholic fermentation methods conservations, or liquids extraction were create by womans. It is only in the context of the emergence of trade, that these techniques are out of the home through men and have acquired a market value. The kitchen would be a basis technicist development of humanity . It is also the sign of the passage of a domestic economy (use value ) to a public economy (market value). It is in this transition from hunter/gatherers to an equipped society that is introduces the sexual division of labor and social roles. N N Noland, Kenneth: Tropical Zone, 1964