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Rare 7,500-year-old headdress upends assumptions about how early agricultural societies interacted

Rare 7,500-Year-Old Headdress Upends Assumptions About How Early Agricultural Societies Interacted ...
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Neolithic agricultural revolution linked to climate-driven wildfires and soil erosion - new study finds

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires and climate-driven soil erosion. Using charcoal records, isotopic data, and ...

Evidence points to early goat and sheep dairy consumption in Neolithic Iran

Approximately 9,000 years ago, human communities in Southwest Asia underwent a dramatic transformation, known as the Neolithic revolution. This period was marked by pronounced changes in how they ...
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Ancient Bows Found in Italy Show Early Neolithic Farmers Never Gave Up Hunting

A new study of early Neolithic bows in Mediterranean finds diverse wood use, highlighting how hunting remained important alongside farming.
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Specialization in sheep farming, a possible strategy for Neolithic communities in the Adriatic to expand throughout the Mediterranean

The specialization in sheep in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion of these communities and the spread of agriculture throughout the ...
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Neolithic farming halls older than Stonehenge discovered beneath school

An early Neolithic timber hall has been found beneath a school in Scotland, with archaeologists believing it could have been a ceremonial venue for Scotland’s first farming communities. The remains of ...
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Farming began in North Africa about 7,500 years ago thanks to immigrants, DNA from Neolithic burials reveals

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An archaeological survey in China revealed a long-inhabited Neolithic settlement, from the earliest rice farming through later cultural phases

Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The Xiatang site in Zhejiang Province offers something far rarer. Excavations ...
Nature

The agricultural revolution tracked through oral microbiome study

During the Neolithic period, human groups around the world shifted from migratory communities of hunter-gatherers to settled groups relying on agriculture. This change happened about 12,000 years ago ...
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The early Neolithic in Greece : the first farming communities in Europe / Catherine Perles ; illustrations by Gerard Monthel

The land and its resources: the geographic context -- The Mesolithic background -- The introduction of farming: local processes, diffusion or colonization? -- Foreign colonists: where from? -- The ...
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Farming began in North Africa about 7,500 years ago thanks to immigrants, DNA from Neolithic burials reveals

The Neolithic age — when agriculture and animal farming were adopted — has become one of the most widely studied periods of social and economic transition in recent years. It was a period that drove ...