The rare artifacts reveal secrets of early Neolithic farming and daily life. New evidence uncovered at a dig site in Huesca, ...

The Neolithic Revolution involved the advent of agriculture, which finally allowed people to settle down in ever-larger groups and focus on things other than procuring calories—things like developing ...

Discover how genetic data supports archeological evidence that some hunter-gatherers who originated in Europe ‘held out’ on farming, dared to cross Mediterranean. Researchers who were curious about ...

Humans were not the only species that experienced a population boom after the development of farming—so did the recently described African wolf (Canis aureus lupaster). According to a study published ...

During the Neolithic period, human groups around the world shifted from migratory communities of hunter-gatherers to settled groups relying on agriculture. This change happened about 12,000 years ago ...

The site of Mehrgarh in Baluchistan lies along the principal route connecting Afghanistan to the Indus valley. After intermittent occupations by hunter–gatherers, Mehrgarh's subsistence economy ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive series of Neolithic-era pits very close to the Stonehenge site in southern England. As with Stonehenge itself its purpose remains a mystery, but the mere ...

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires and climate-driven soil erosion. Using charcoal records, isotopic data, and ...

Human behaviour during the last intense period of global warming might offer an insight into how best to adapt to current climate change, a study suggests. Research led by the University of Plymouth ...

The behavior of the human population during the last intense period of global warming might offer an insight into how best to adapt to the current challenges posed by climate change, a study suggests.