An ancient Neolithic structure known as a cursus, believed to be the only complete such monument found in Britain, has been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Arran. A team of archaeologists, led by ...

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 drove ...

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 drove ...

Researchers in southern Spain recently discovered and examined the oldest evidence of basketry and sandals in Europe, revealing previously unknown details about hunter-gatherers and farming societies ...

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 ...

The site of Çatalhöyük in Southern Turkey, where a furnace with unbaked, leavened bread dating to 6600 BCE was recently discovered (photo via Getty Images) Archaeologists excavating at the ancient ...

A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust. At a massive site in southern Turkey called Çatalhöyük, large ...

Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the ...

Matthew Williams, academic affiliate assistant professor of biology at Penn State (left), and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, are part of a team that used sophisticated ...

An archaeological survey has identified traces of hundreds of previously unknown monuments—including five "incredibly rare" prehistoric structures that may have once marked "routes for the dead" into ...

In the summer of 1976, a ground fire burned through a vegetated area on the island of Guernsey, revealing a granite slab protruding from a high mound of earth. The ensuing excavation revealed an ...

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