The third excavation campaign was recently completed at the Neolithic site known as the Botanical Garden, located on the ...

The project began when he was overseeing an excavation by a Standford in the Vale Scout group for their heritage badge.

“It’s a huge, enormous amount of stone, and it’s always been a mystery and an intriguing scientific question how on Earth (it was built given) the technology they had in the Neolithic period.

Unlike the hard beach stones used at the nearby Neolithic village of Skara Brae, the stones used in the Ness buildings were quarried. This leaves them prone to erosion and they would begin to ...

ZHENGZHOU, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The main genetic components of the Han and Tibetan ethnic groups came from people living in the middle reaches of the Yellow River about 7,000 years ago, according to a ...

The Neolithic farmers and herders who built a massive stone chamber in southern Spain nearly 6,000 years ago possessed a good rudimentary grasp of physics, geometry, geology and architectural ...

The pretty village of Frigiliana, in Malaga, has once again secured its place in National Geographic's "100 most beautiful ...

Around 7000 BC, marked changes took place: farmers settled in the previously uninhabited alluvial basins, built permanent villages and introduced domestic plants and animals ... solely responsible for ...

Final physical reconstruction of the necklace, today exposed at the new museum of Petra in Jordan. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Hacilar: A Neolithic Village Site A small mound on Turkey's Anatolian plateau has yielded the remains of early communities that provide a long-sought link between the prehistoric cultures of the ...

It was in this region at this time — known as the neolithic transition — that tribes of nomadic hunters and gatherers began to cultivate plants and domesticate animals as a means for sustenance ...