Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

Anthropologist Alex Bentley tells The Conversation Weekly about his research how modelling the spread of COVID sparked new ...

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

Archaeologists from the Buzău County Museum, in southern Romania, have discovered 31 human settlements on the construction ...

Scholars have for decades debated the source of the iron ore and sites of the foundries that made the implements that created ...

In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone ...

We are in the midst of another revolution, even if most of us are unaware of it. Technology is taking a firm hold on farms in this state, country and planet. Farmers are increasingly relying on ...

If the beginning of farming in peninsular India triggered a unique cultural dynamic that led to the formation of a Megalithic ...

Unlike the clay figurines of the Neolithic period, which are commonly found in early farming villages, the Damjili figurine is made of stone. It measures 51 mm in length and 15 mm in width and has an ...

During the Stone Age, humans in Europe and North Africa mostly lived as hunter-gatherers, gradually transitioning to farming and more complex societies during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age ...

Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and ... enough to earn him a silver medal in his age category of 85 and up. Ever since, he has won ...