This documentary examines the Neolithic Period and the innovations that defined the New Stone Age, including farming, ...

The specialization in sheep farming 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 ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...

Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The Xiatang site in Zhejiang Province offers something far rarer. Excavations ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution is one of the most thoroughly-studied episodes in prehistory. But a new article shows that most explanations for it don't agree with the evidence, and offers a ...

Once history’s first farmers settled down to start a more sedentary life, they began to see the value of close-knit communities. And they didn’t just forge bonds with their immediate neighbors; ...

The Neolithic (i.e., farming and stockbreeding) spread from the Near East across Europe since about 9000 years before the common era (BCE) until about 4000 yr BCE. It followed two main routes, namely ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...

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 ...