Thus, the Neolithic Revolution gave rise to rapid technological progress that continues unabated to the current day. Trade was always a feature of hunter gatherer societies, however with the ...

Before the Neolithic Revolution, around 12,000 years ago, Homo sapiens lived scattered about the world in small groups, ...

They began to set up farms. These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as setting up farms and permanent homes, they also built ...

Findings from a new study challenge the traditional view that a heavy reliance on plant-based diets started only with the advent of agriculture.

At the site known as Oued Beht, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a large farming settlement where people used advanced ...

Chronologically we deal with three millennia, c. 6400 to c. 3600 bce. In Gordon Childe’s terminology this is the era between the revolutions: it postdates the “Agricultural Revolution” of the early ...

It has been 100 years since a 6,000-year-old ancient chamber in Jersey was discovered. The Neolithic passage grave at La Hougue Bie was uncovered by Société Jersiaise archaeologists in 1924.

The Neolithic Revolution, in his view ... It was promoted in countless articles and books and ultimately enshrined in Wikipedia. Yet critics charged that the evidence was weak, not least because ...

“It’s a huge, enormous amount of stone, and it’s always been a mystery and an intriguing scientific question how on Earth (it ...

A settlement site discovered in Zhejiang is from the early to middle period of the Neolithic Age, dating back to approximately 9,300 to 8,000 years ago. This site contains important remains such ...

Researchers from Kiel, Münster, Schleswig and Hamburg have now analyzed bones from late Neolithic farmers within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 1266 "Scales of Transformation ...