Near the town of Alsleben in central Germany, where the Saale River bends through flat agricultural land, archaeologists have ...

Agriculture in the Baltics evolved by example, not interbreeding. Communities across Europe went through significant cultural transition during the Neolithic period, moving from hunter-gatherer ...

A new study has found evidence of cheesemaking, using milk from multiple animals in Late Neolithic Poland. A new study has found evidence of cheesemaking, using milk from multiple animals in Late ...

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 ...

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the ...

Karahantepe is one of at least 20 sites dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, more than 10,000 years ago, that are being explored by archaeologists working in the Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, ...

Understanding the Western Europeans' social structure and kinships from the Neolithic era was a previous challenge, but researchers have now been given a clear indication that understood the early ...

Due to lower water levels at the Atatürk Dam reservoir in Adıyaman, a monumental Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) archaeological site has surfaced in the area, yielding important new evidence related to ...

New genetic and archaeological evidence is reshaping the long-standing narrative of the Neolithic Revolution in North Africa.