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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at a dig site in Spain discovered tools from some of the first farmers, possibly dating back 7,000 years. The ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a recent discovery. This finding ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

From 4th -8th November , 2024, the Southeastern Anatolian city of Şanlıurfa, home to the globally significant Neolithic sites of Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, will host the World Neolithic Congress, ...

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The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...