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.

The first is the 'human revolution', when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithic period. Gamble identifies 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.

“It’s a huge, enormous amount of stone, and it’s always been a mystery and an intriguing scientific question how on Earth (it ...

The megalithic monuments of the Neolithic era—consisting of large stones and peculiar architecture—have long perplexed ...

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 ...

More than 90,000 stone artifacts from the Neolithic period have been discovered from the Shiren Cave relic site in the city of Hailin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The site ...

Tests carried out on the pits suggest they were excavated by Neolithic people more than 4,500 years ago. Experts believe the 20 or more shafts may have served as a boundary to a sacred area ...