Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...

The Neolithic revolution describes a monumental shift from hunting and gathering to settlement and agriculture, and one of the most fascinating Neolithic settlements is Çatalhöyük in Turkey.

LAND acts as the primary source of food. More than eight billion people still draw 99.9 per cent of food from land. Out of ...

It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts of the world. This included the introduction of farming, the ...

Things may be about to change. Again. According to archaeologists the Neolithic Revolution dates back as far as 11,000 years ago. Early civilisations relied mostly on hunting and gathering as a ...

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

HAMMAR, SWEDEN—Newsweek reports that a Neolithic ceremonial site estimated to be between 5,000 and 5,500 years old has been discovered in southern Sweden. The large causewayed enclosure is ...

Then go and fill it all in again. But this is exactly what's happening at the Ness of Brodgar, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles. After two decades of patient ...

Using advanced computational mechanical analysis techniques, the authors have proposed a new theory about the evolution of the wheel, tracing its origins to around 3900 B.C. in the Neolithic mines of ...