Before the Neolithic Revolution, around 12,000 years ago, Homo sapiens lived scattered about the world in small groups, ...

Even so, it stands alone as the greatest revolution in the history of mankind ... Latin America and China experienced totally independent Neolithic Revolutions at later periods in time.

The Neolithic Revolution, in his view, was an explosively important event—"the greatest in human history after the mastery of fire." Of all the aspects of the revolution, agriculture was the ...

Railroad construction through a farm on the Danish island of Falster has revealed a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site hiding an ...

Found by Brian Pollard in a field in Honiley, Warwickshire. It was made in the quarries of Penmaenmawr in North Wales, of a sedimentary rock similar to slate. This handaxe was probably the main ...

The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown. Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains ...

As a key location in the Neolithic revolution, Şanlıurfa continues to play an important role in understanding humanity’s earliest civilisations. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to keep up to ...

These Neolithic remains form one of the earliest identified monuments in the Dorchester area." "Scheduling the site will ensure this piece of our history can continue to capture people's creative ...

Thomas Hardy and the Druid Stone discovered during the construction of Max Gate (Dorset Museum & Art Gallery/Dorset History Centre/PA) The enclosure is from the Middle Neolithic period (3365 to ...

But this is exactly what's happening at the Ness of Brodgar, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the ... have been able to watch Orcadian history uncovered in real time, and the team ...

The team recovered unprecedented domesticated plant and animal remains, pottery and lithics, all dating to the Final Neolithic period. Excavation also revealed extensive evidence for deep storage ...