Discover how genetic data supports archeological evidence that some hunter-gatherers who originated in Europe ‘held out’ on ...

Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, ...

Agriculture and the rise of civilizations: The advent of the Neolithic Revolution marks a significant turning point in world history, as societies transitioned from nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles ...

Zero is one of a number of concepts that have shaped the course of the world so fundamentally that we would not recognize ...

Image by Julian Puig Guevara. The study suggests that the Casarabe culture represents an example of a “Neolithic Revolution” in the Amazon, with an economy based on grain production that ...

Although Neolithic Britain itself takes up less than half the book, there is nevertheless ample space to tackle it in detail. Miles brings together all the major discoveries in excavation and dating ...

The Neolithic agricultural revolution saw the standardization of land, allotted to community members in lots sufficient to support their families, with proportional obligations attached—obliging ...

At the Neolithic monument of Newgrange ... Aristotle said that "the revolution of the outermost sphere of the heavens" should be the reference for measuring time. The Greek philosopher believed ...