Farming did not lead to entrenched economic inequality in ancient Carpathian communities; the study published in Science Advances
Culinary traditions were largely unaffected at the time of the dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan
When ideas travel further than people: how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent; a new study published in the journal Science
Early farmers in the Andes were doing just fine, challenging popular theory; diet data shows consistent food resources during the transition from foraging to farming
Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas; they went south not with the first hunter-gatherers, but with mobile farming communities
The δ15N values of foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and common millet (Panicum miliaceum) are reliable indicators of manuring practices
Archaeologists uncover massive 1000-year-old Native American fields at the Sixty Islands archaeological site along the Menominee River, in Northern Michigan, that defy limits of farming
Neolithic agricultural Revolution in southern Levant linked to climate-driven wildfires and soil erosion, according to a new study in the Journal of Soils and Sediments
The LandCover6K working group looks to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia; a new study published in PLoS ONE
Discovery of a unique drainage and irrigation system that gave way to the “Neolithic Revolution” at Llanos de Moxos, in the Amazon
