Our human ancestors fundamentally changed their eating behavior in the Neolithic period. This was when they began to cultivate cereals and domesticate wild animals.

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

They began to set up farms. These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as setting up farms and permanent homes, they also built ...

More information: Jakob Hansen et al, Combining traceological analysis and ZooMS on Early Neolithic bone artefacts ... researchers to consider that this animal may have played a prominent role ...

Simon Fraser University, the Greek Ministry of Culture, and the University of Bologna have conducted an isotope study on the ...

Archaeologists believed for a while that the bones of small carnivores left behind by hunter-gatherers in the early Neolithic settlements were left behind after those animals were killed for their ...