New research on animal bones at Dispilio, a lakeside Neolithic site in Greece, uncovers ancient farming and livestock practices.

The specialization in sheep farming 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 ...

Archaeologists working in southeastern Turkey have identified Karahan Tepe as a site where permanent, organized community ...

Humankind first started farming in Mesopotamia about 11,500 years ago. Subsequently, the practices of cultivating crops and raising livestock emerged independently at perhaps a dozen other places ...

Massive T-shaped limestone pillars, some weighing up to 50 tons, were quarried and erected at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern ...

In the arid, wind-scoured plains of Balochistan, Pakistan, an archaeological revelation has overturned decades of assumptions. A team of international scientists has revised the age of South Asia’s ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A vast Neolithic structure that could date back to more than 5,000 ...

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 ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...

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 Agricultural Revolution is one of the most thoroughly-studied episodes in prehistory. But a new article shows that most explanations for it don't agree with the evidence, and offers a ...