SoulDoubt
Villager
Well, clearly, I didn't understand what the OP wanted.
By the bolded, I thought the OP meant the literal span of time in which the Neolithic period occurred, roughly 10,000 BC until about 4,500 BC or later. If someone asks me about fantasy set in that range of time, the first thing that comes to my mind are the stories of JRR Tolkien. Further discussion in this thread and my own discussions with other people outside of this thread have helped me understand that, by neolithic, the OP was talking about genre, rather than literal time period, and that although the features of this neolithic genre were not well defined in the OP itself, Tolkien's legendarium does not share enough of them to merit inclusion in the discussion.
Time periods are virtually meaningless without context. And to give us that context, the OP mentioned the Neolithic, which is a specific reference to an era of human social and technological development on Earth; and also specifically pointed to Gobleki Tepe and Catalhoyuk, archaeology sites from that period. So I think it's safe to say they didn't mean 10,000 BC on Mars or Alpha Centauri.
EDIT: Also, I think it's worth noting that the genre is still fantasy, but the milieu is Neolithic. It's a semantic distinction, yes, but an important one IMO.
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