On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved Neolithic villages in European history. Currently under excavation, this ...

Rare 7,500-Year-Old Headdress Upends Assumptions About How Early Agricultural Societies Interacted ...

Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic north Syria between about 11,600 and 7,500 years ago. Using advanced ...

Once history's first farmers settled down to start a more sedentary life, they began to see the value of close-knit communities. And they didn't just forge bonds with their immediate neighbors; ...

A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust. At a massive site in southern Turkey called Çatalhöyük, large ...

(CNN) — Researchers have reassembled an ancient ornate necklace discovered in the grave of a child who lived in the Neolithic village of Ba'ja in what's now southern Jordan. More than 2,500 colorful ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect the ...

Archaeologists working a vast Neolithic site in northeast France have uncovered what they say is the last piece of the puzzle -- traces of a permanent settlement.

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 47-59 (13 pages) This paper gives an overview of domesticated and wild plants used during the second half of the fourth ...