By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

According to radiocarbon calibrated dates, the Early Bronze I (EB 1) lasted almost six centuries, between c. 3,700 and c.

Red foxes and wildcats vital in early Neolithic Levant diet Small carnivores used for both food and fur during Neolithic era Evidence from Aḥihud site points to ...

Samples of Majiayao pottery from Majiayao phase ... marks a significant breakthrough in understanding this Neolithic civilization that thrived 5,000 years ago. The settlement, unearthed after seven ...

Around this time, hunter–gatherer societies in the Levant were transitioning to a farmer lifestyle. This transition is called the Neolithic Revolution. Early signs of change had already been ...

“The sunstones are completely unique, also in a European context. The closest we get to a similar sun cult in the Neolithic is some passage graves in southern Scandinavia or henge structures like ...

New evidence suggests that a volcanic eruption around 2,900 BCE had devastating impacts on Neolithic societies ... found in ditches alongside broken pottery, animal bones, and flint tools and ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

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 ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.