Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

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 ...

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.

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

The child's remains were discovered at an early Neolithic archaeological site known as Jiahu, in northern China, that dates back to around 7,000-5,000 B.C. While the modifications remains ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

The American scholar Lawrence Keeley emphasised a “neo-Rousseauan” strain in archaeological thinking after World War II that ...

While the study finds no signal for a single migration source of people into or out of the Neolithic Middle Nile Valley, it does offer some insightful starting points for future investigations to ...

"There's been a lot of debate about the transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to farming, including how much was due to migration during the Neolithic period and if any of the changes were ...