The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

Dr Eline Schotsmans has co-authored major new findings showing the “world’s first city” may have venerated women as the ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread ...

The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the ...

So the origins of agriculture is what distinguishes the paleo from the Neolithic. Demsas: And around how long ago are we talking? Matranga: It was about 11,500 years ago in the Middle East.

The Neolithic age — when agriculture and animal farming were adopted — has become one of the most widely studied periods of social and economic transition in recent years. It was a period that ...

Evidence from the site indicates that Neolithic people deposited the stones en masse over a short period—possibly in a single event—around 2900 B.C. ... fields and crops, ...

An ancient volcano blotted out the sun, killing crops. People likely reacted by making "sun stones" Buried in ditches, the Neolithic carvings may have been a sacrifice to stop volcanic climate change ...

A new study shows how a 5,600-year-old monument in what’s now Spain was erected. Each stone of the Menga Dolmen is many times bigger than Stonehenge’s megaliths.

A new study shows how a 5,600-year-old monument in what’s now Spain was erected. Each stone of the Menga Dolmen is many times bigger than Stonehenge’s megaliths.