The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the current ...

In 1996 archaeologists ventured into a cave in Gibraltar, where they found a burial containing human bones. Among them was a skull. The archaeologists knew that the burial was very old. It was ...

The Neolithic age — when agriculture and animal farming were adopted — has become one of the most widely studied periods of social and economic transition in recent years. It was a period that drove ...

July 11 (Reuters) - Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming communities across the region. The cause of this calamity, called the Neolithic ...