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 ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a recent discovery. This finding ...

These investigations reveal that Morocco was home to an unknown farming society dating back ... all dating to the Final ...

An eruption that must have had equally devastating consequences for the Neolithic peoples who lived in Northern Europe at the time and who were deeply dependent on agriculture. This new insight ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

The team looked at genetic, burial and food data from more than 300 Neolithic individuals belonging to the Linear Pottery Culture, who lived between 5,500 and 5,000 BC and spread farming across ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...

An eruption that must have had equally devastating consequences for the Neolithic peoples who lived in Northern Europe at the time and who were deeply dependent on agriculture. This new insight ...