Economic inequality appears to have been rare and transient among humans during the Neolithic period (that is, from about ...

Neolithic Farmers Used Grinding Stones to Make Porridge and Not Flour, Claim Archaeologists Archeologists have found evidence ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) unearthed the remains of an 8,000-year-old rectangular dwelling at ...

There are about 250 examples scattered across the Welsh landscape - though experts estimate this represents only a third of ...

Proximity to the sea allowed Neolithic communities to sustain themselves with fishing and marine resources, crucial supplements in case of crop failure or livestock loss. Prof George Nash The ...

The Neolithic inhabitants were descended from populations ... they were already "tooled up" and well-prepared for growing crops in a north-west European climate. The study also analysed DNA ...

Previous archaeological studies suggested that the CG2 grapevines were the first to be domesticated, and these gave rise to grape varieties that migrated with the Neolithic spread of agriculture ...