A site in the Borders could be the northernmost Stone Age causeway-accessed enclosure ever found.

Archaeologists excavating a Neolithic farming village near Eilsleben, Germany, about 60 miles east of Hannover, uncovered evidence of an unexpected relationship between early farmers and ...

The specialization in sheep in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion of these communities and the spread of agriculture throughout the ...

The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia. To better understand their dynamics of interaction, a team from the ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

For thousands of years, people repeatedly returned to a rock shelter above the Montsant River, leaving behind traces of a ...

Railroad construction through a farm on the Danish island of Falster has revealed a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site hiding an advanced technology—a stone paved root cellar. Archaeology researchers from ...

Of the many infuriating findings about humankind from throughout history, evidence of inequality between groups of people persists. However, a recent discovery about ancient humans in Valais, ...

Grave goods, such as stone tools, have revealed that Neolithic farmers had different work-related activities for men and women. Grave goods, such as stone tools, have revealed that Neolithic farmers ...

The land and its resources: the geographic context -- The Mesolithic background -- The introduction of farming: local processes, diffusion or colonization? -- Foreign colonists: where from? -- The ...