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 ...

The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia. To better understand their dynamics of interaction, a team from the ...

Did it arise from local developments or through large-scale migration? Recent research in paleogenomics, published in Nature, sheds light on this. Scientists examined DNA from Moroccan sites like Kaf ...

The specialization in sheep in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion of these communities and the spread of agriculture throughout the ...

An early Neolithic timber hall has been found beneath a school in Scotland, with archaeologists believing it could have been a ceremonial venue for Scotland’s first farming communities. The remains of ...

5,000-Year-Old Burial Mounds Have Been Hiding Beneath These Farm Fields, and Scientists Just Found Them ...

Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better ...

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 land and its resources: the geographic context -- The Mesolithic background -- The introduction of farming: local processes, diffusion or colonization? -- Foreign colonists: where from? -- The ...

Neolithic peoples made the transition from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to crop-growing farmers, and their diets are the subject of numerous studies. Archaeological evidence informs us about the ...