Anthropologists have traditionally relied on modern-day ethnography to determine what early humans gathered, based on the ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Discover the dawn of civilisation where our Neolithic and Bronze age ancestors changed from hunter-gatherers to organised societies with agriculture, ritual and an understanding of the wider world.

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 ...