Hebrew University researcher says lightning-ignited blazes transformed Levant's landscape, ending hunter-gatherer lifestyle ...

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most ...

Before humans could domesticate the wild plants and animals around them ... just as Neolithic peoples did after them. The first documented agriculture began some 11,500 years ago in what Harvard ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

The study, from radiocarbon dating of tooth enamel from 23 Neolithic ... as evidence that agriculture may have arisen locally, with domestication of plants like barley and animals such as zebu ...