The emergence in the Neolithic of patrilineal social systems, in which children are affiliated with their father's lineage, may explain a spectacular decline in the genetic diversity of the Y ...
A reconstruction of the occurrence of plague in a large family tree from Neolithic Sweden indicates that 12 of 38 family members were infected in three separate waves — a potential explanation for a ...
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6,000 Years Later, Neolithic Seashells Made into Trumpets Still Work
Learn how Neolithic communities transformed seashells into powerful signal horns built for long-distance communication.
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Farmers were already diversifying cereal cultivation in the early Neolithic period, study finds
An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...
Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in eastern ...
Scientists have made new discoveries about the lives of the world’s first farming communities after analysing 10,000-year-old teeth. Researchers from Durham University used the jaws of 71 people, ...
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 ...
Archaeologists in France have unearthed the Roman-era remains of a landscaped pool and wall around a natural freshwater spring; and they think it was built on the ruins of a much older, probably ...
Evidence of worship and religion in the form of architectural remains is rather scanty before the shift in human behavior, from hunter-gatherers to sedentary communities, and the emergence of ...
Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...
Read the issue » The Stones of Stenness are part of one of Europe’s richest archeological landscapes—the legacy of a ...
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