Ancient bones reveal how early Iberian people managed livestock. A new study shows two distinct herds: some grazed freely, ...

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“The Neolithic, in this view, was not a single process ... the researchers were able to move past overly simple models of how farming spread. The story is richer, more complex, and more human. And ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland 5500 years ago.

Excavations of the Eastern tell have revealed 18 levels of Neolithic occupation dating from 7,400-6,200 BC that have provided unique evidence of the evolution of prehistoric social organisation and ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

Reports of Neolithic Irish god-kings, descended through an incest-practicing social elite, are lacking in evidence, say a ...

On the Anatolian plains, more than ten thousand years ago, one of humanity’s first major farming communities flourished, ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread ...