A recent study published by Dr. Shirad Galmor and colleagues in Environmental Archaeology examined the role played by foxes ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

But while this pivotal shift is known as the Neolithic Revolution, it wasn't immediate. Instead, it was a gradual change that continued into the Neolithic era. Fewer large animals like red deer ...

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 ...

Archaeologists unearth “extremely rare” early Neolithic village on the French Riviera, marking the human transition from a nomadic existence to an agricultural society.

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. Credit: National Museum of Denmark Volcanic eruptions shaped the destinies of ancient European societies, leading to dramatic ...

The Neolithic Flint Mines project was established in order to fully record and widely disseminate the results of the early 20th century investigations for the first time. Harrow Hill: a Neolithic ...

Described as a rare find by the regional archaeology department, one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in France, attributed to the Early Cardial period, is currently being excavated by ...

HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, archaeologist Xingtao Wei of Zhengzhou University and his colleagues analyzed residues preserved on three 8,000-year-old pottery tripods ...

Distribution and quantity of Neolithic/early agrarian figurines related to the main cultural complexes mentioned in the text, c. 6200–3300 BCE. Credit: Rebecca Bristow et al. The team suggests that ...

The child's remains were discovered at an early Neolithic archaeological site known as Jiahu, in northern China, that dates back to around 7,000-5,000 B.C. While the modifications remains ...