The Neolithic revolution describes a monumental shift from hunting and gathering to settlement and agriculture, and one of the most fascinating Neolithic settlements is Çatalhöyük in Turkey.

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 ...

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 ...

India's history is a mosaic of diverse cultures and civilizations, many of which predate the arrival of the Aryans. The question of who the original Indian people were has intrigued historians, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nestled within the valleys, hills and open fields of Wales, lies one of Western Europe's most remarkable collections of prehistoric Neolithic burial chambers. These ancient structures, dating from ...

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 ...

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 ...