An early Neolithic timber hall has been found beneath a school in Scotland, with archaeologists believing it could have been a ceremonial venue for Scotland’s first farming communities. The remains of ...

The Neolithic age — when agriculture and animal farming were adopted — has become one of the most widely studied periods of social and economic transition in recent years. It was a period that drove ...

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic north Syria between about 11,600 and 7,500 years ago. Using advanced ...

A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust. At a massive site in southern Turkey called Çatalhöyük, large ...

(CN) — Ancient artifacts discovered from the Mediterranean Sea confirm that Neolithic pioneers were using sophisticated nautical technologies even thousands of years ago, according to European ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...

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 ...

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 ...