At Xiatang village in Xianju county, East China's Zhejiang province, remains of a primitive village more than 9,000 years old ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

The area around the Jordan Valley was populated from the Neolithic Period and one of the most crucial preconditions for ...

With evidence of the peoples who inhabited the forests of Saxony-Anhalt enduring in the form of giant granite megaliths, the ...

On the basis of the extensively documented research at the site, the above features make it the most significant human settlement documenting early settled agricultural life of a Neolithic community.

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in the ...

"Agriculture and settlement patterns were likely shaped by necessity, not just innovation." The paper also highlights how Neolithic settlements in the southern Levant clustered over thick reworked ...

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.

The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the ...

"Similarly, we see changes in Neolithic architecture and burial ... "The remoteness of these areas, coupled with their marginal agricultural value, helped shield many sites from modern development ...

And then in the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, they started to grow their own food. So the origins of agriculture is what distinguishes the paleo from the Neolithic. Demsas: And around how long ago ...