A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires and climate-driven soil erosion. Using charcoal records, isotopic data, and ...

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 ...

The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution is one of the most thoroughly-studied episodes in prehistory. But a new article shows that most explanations for it don't agree with the evidence, and offers a ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in the southern ...

This article re-examines the 'neolithic revolution'—Gordon Childe's great contribution to prehistoric archaeology. Childe first articulated his model of three revolutions in history—neolithic, urban ...

Famous sites there that are currently being excavated include Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe. Türkiye Today reports that ...

Researchers who were curious about when ancient Europeans travelled to Africa followed the DNA. The route they discovered ...

Archaeological excavations inside of the cave of 'Iraq ed-Dubb (Cave of the Bear) located in the forested highlands of Wadi el-Yabis, northwestern Jordan, have revealed the presence of stone ...