Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. With the beginning of the ...

Archeologists think that the warming climate boosted the Neolithic Revolution, and as Earth began to thaw, it opened up the door to agriculture in places that were once frozen. While early humans ...

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most significant turning points: the Neolithic Revolution. Published in the Journal ...

Discover how genetic data supports archeological evidence that some hunter-gatherers who originated in Europe ‘held out' on ...

Neolithic infections The first major wave of newly emerging infections occurred with the start of the Neolithic revolution about 12,000 years ago, when people began shifting from foraging to ...

During the Neolithic Revolution, the more humans came together, the more they invented. The farming communities of the Neolithic period would soon give rise to the following Bronze Age dynasties, ...