neolithic

9,000-year-old non-stick trays was used to make Neolithic focaccia

Husking trays not only baked bread but also fostered human connection across an area spanning 2,000 km (~1,243 miles)

Railway work in Denmark reveals sophisticated Stone Age cellar

They were more sophisticated than we gave them credit.

This ancient community in Switzerland might have been egalitarian

Perhaps we may learn a thing or two from these people.

Many Stone Age people were murdered with the same method used by the Italian Mafia — and it was all part of a ritualistic sacrifice

An investigation spanning decades has revealed a strange pattern of violence during the Neolithic.

Oldest Neolithic boats in the Mediterranean were remarkably advanced

Some 7,700 years ago, these people were using canoes to sail the Mediterranean.

Ancient DNA reveals Scandinavia's brutal shift from hunter-gatherers to farmers

After farmers wiped out the native hunter-gathers, they too would be replaced by nomadic people from the far east.

Is this man holding his penis the world's oldest depiction of a narrative scene?

This 11,000 year-old scene is quite the artistic roller coaster.

Trade was thriving in Neolithic Italy, isotope study shows

Ancient Italians were importing copper from Tuscany, a new study shows.

Ancient Dane's life reconstructed from 5,700-year-old chewing gum

The early Neolithic female was a hunter-gather

Near east neolithic people fashioned jewelry out of human teeth

The teeth were in perfect health when they were drilled for ornamentation purposes more than 8,000 years ago.

Gender inequality emerged during the Neolithic, new study finds

The trend became much clearer after the Neolithic, but the signs were there.

Stone-age peoples in the Iberian Peninsula shared graves with dogs

Man's best friend, indeed.

The most remote tribe in the world -- untouched and uncontacted

The amazing history of a tribe forgotten by time.

Humanity has contended with rising seas before -- and it didn’t go well for us

It's a bad day when the ocean moves into your living room.

Neolithic cattle farmers were much more specialized than you'd think

They weren't simple savages.

Embracing neolithic couple found buried in Greek cave

A rare Neolithic-era burial site was discovered by the northern entrance of the Alepotrypa (“Foxhole”) Cave in southern Greece. The skeleton remains show how a couple was laid to rest in embrace, close to a burial of another male and female who were found in fetal position - the most common burial position during the Neolithic. The embracing couple’s skeletons were dated with the C14 method to 3800 BC while their DNA analysis confirmed the remains were those of a male and female.

Manure was used by European farmers 8000 years ago

A new study has shown that European farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. The Oxford research found that Neolithic farmers used manure as a fertilizer as early as 6000 BC. It has been previously assumed that manure wasn’t used in agriculture until Roman times. This technique is fairly complex, because dung […]

Neolithic man: the first lumberjack?

During the Neolithic period, man made the big jump from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, eventually moving on to larger and larger settlements, with a variety of animals and plants. The transition also brought significant changes in terms of economy, architecture, and apparently, woodworking. Dr. Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University‘s Department of Archaeology and […]