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 ...

Archaeologists uncovered 6,500-year-old mysterious earthwork circles in Austria’s Burgenland, older than the pyramids and ...

A discovery in Uzbekistan shows that the roots of farming stretched far beyond the Fertile Crescent. The emergence 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 ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

Here we report the results of an archaeobotanical study carried out on Ceramic Neolithic (2700–2000 BC) and Kushan period (AD 100–300) deposits at Kanispur, Kashmir, northern India. Botanical evidence ...

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 ...

(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 ...