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 from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

Beginning at its western end, the Avebury World Heritage Site is an absolute must-see. Here, the impressive Neolithic stone circles, larger and older than Stonehenge, offer a profound connection ...

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic settlement in central Anatolia? And what role did women hold in their society?

According to the East Anglian Daily Times, the team recently unearthed hundreds of earthen pits, a discovery which has provided new clues—and posed some questions—about daily life in Neolithic ...

Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in ...

Archaeological research in South India and Sri Lanka has brought to light several Iron Age and Early Historic sites; but Neolithic cultural evidence is confined mainly to Andhra-Karnataka region.