Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better understand how environmental conditions may have shaped the development of ...
Archaeologists excavating a Neolithic farming village near Eilsleben, Germany, about 60 miles east of Hannover, uncovered evidence of an unexpected relationship between early farmers and ...
Near the town of Alsleben in central Germany, where the Saale River bends through flat agricultural land, archaeologists have ...
A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of different types of labor between people of male and female biological sex at the start ...
The land and its resources: the geographic context -- The Mesolithic background -- The introduction of farming: local processes, diffusion or colonization? -- Foreign colonists: where from? -- The ...
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 ...
A new investigation of stone tools buried in graves provides evidence supporting the existence of a division of different types of labor between people of male and female biological sex at the start ...