As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many ...

A new study challenges traditional views on humanity's shift from hunting and gathering to farming, highlighting early human ...

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

Humans, not climate, sparked the farming revolution through migration, cultural exchange, and competition, according to a new ...

This transition led to progress in human societies. Researchers from the University of Bath, the Max Planck Institute for ...

A recent study challenges conventional wisdom by emphasizing the importance of human interactions in the transition from ...

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies.

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

Farming emerged in different parts of the ... and prey dynamics—they set out to understand how early farmers and hunter-gatherers influenced each other’s fate. Their results, published in ...

The transition from a hunter-gatherer foraging lifestyle, which humanity had followed for hundreds of thousands of years, to a settled farming one about 12,000 years ago has been widely discussed ...