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Researchers at a dig site in Spain discovered tools from some of the first farmers, possibly dating back 7,000 years. The ...

A project aimed to create an image out of a skull successfully identified the "Penang Woman," who lived 5,700 years ago during the Neolithic stone age, with the researchers revealing what the person ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...

Lake Bracciano, once the home of a Neolithic civilization, now sits miles from modern-day Rome and serves as an archaeological site. Nikole Ceccarelli via Unsplash As divers scoured the floor of an ...

The middle Yangtze River valley of China was home to 20 or so Neolithic earthen walled towns dated between 6000 and 4200 cal BP, which is very rare in East Asia. Many scholars consider these walled ...

DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete. The findings suggest they arose from an ...

Unusual finds fuel new ideas about the impetus for one of the first long-term settlements (above, the site today). Catalhoyuk Research Project In 1993, dig leader Ian Hodder (above) resumed work at ...