A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...

The Casarabe society of pre-Columbian Amazonia engineered an advanced water management system, enabling year-round maize ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

The Neolithic revolution describes a monumental shift from hunting and gathering to settlement and agriculture, and one of the most fascinating Neolithic settlements is Çatalhöyük in Turkey.

Archaeologists believed for a while that the bones of small carnivores left behind by hunter-gatherers in the early Neolithic settlements were left behind after those animals were killed for their ...

This transition is called the Neolithic Revolution. Early signs of change had already been observable as early as the late Epi-Paleolithic (15,000–11,700 cal BP). These changes included a ...

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A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

Things may be about to change. Again. According to archaeologists the Neolithic Revolution dates back as far as 11,000 years ago. Early civilisations relied mostly on hunting and gathering as a ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...