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

Economic inequality appears to have been rare and transient among humans during the Neolithic period (that is, from about 11,000 to 5,000 years ago). But in the following period, economic inequality ...

This new insight into a climate episode in the Neolithic period has led archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen, the National Museum of Denmark and the Museum of Bornholm to view their ...

This new insight into a climate episode in the Neolithic period has led archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen, the National Museum of Denmark and the Museum of Bornholm to view their ...

Cast far to Britain's north, the discovery dates back a staggering 5,000 years and offers vital clues about the island's ...

The site, first identified in 2019, is one of the highest-altitude Neolithic sites ever found. The Neolithic period, known for the rise of agriculture, permanent settlements, and early civilizations, ...

Archaeologists Dr. Jess Thompson and her colleagues have published a study dealing with the possible identification of human skulls used in ancestral veneration in the European Journal of Archaeology.

However, questions remain about what defines bread and who first created it. The invention of bread was closely linked to the shift from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, which scientists ...

This environmental disruption caused widespread famine and disease, as documented in ancient Greek and Roman writings. Although the Neolithic period lacks written records, researchers from the Niels ...

Such sites existed throughout Europe during the Neolithic period, Iversen said. At Vasagård, the ditches had been around for at least 500 years before the sun stones appeared there, according to ...