Trade was thriving in Neolithic Italy, isotope study shows
Ancient Italians were importing copper from Tuscany, a new study shows.
Tag: neolithic
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...