Archaeologists working in western Slovakia did not expect the perimeter ditch of an early farming settlement to become one of ...

Dozens of human skeletons, lying apparently randomly on and next to each other, with their skulls missing, present a ...

Archaeologists excavating a Neolithic farming village near Eilsleben, Germany, about 60 miles east of Hannover, uncovered evidence of an unexpected relationship between early farmers and ...

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 ...

For more than six decades, Çatalhöyük has challenged archaeologists' assumptions about how the world's earliest farming ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A vast Neolithic structure that could date back to more than 5,000 ...

A new high-resolution climate study from China’s Loess Plateau suggests that soil temperature, not just air temperature or ...

Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better understand how environmental conditions may have shaped the development of ...

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 ...