The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the ...

Animal remains found during the dig allude to Neolithic husbandry practices. New evidence uncovered at a dig site in Huesca, Spain, gives us a snapshot into what daily agricultural practices may ...

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 ...

Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most significant turning points: the Neolithic Revolution ... and gathering to farming in the southern ...

"The survival of the monument means that the potential it has for shedding light on early Neolithic farming and social organization is incredibly exciting. These sites are almost all ploughed flat ...

A new study reveals how ancient Chinese farmers managed soil fertility and water resources over thousands of years. By ...

Starting roughly 12,000 years ago, at least seven different groups of humans independently began to settle down and begin farming ... argues that the Neolithic revolution happened as a result ...