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
Water and gruel – not bread: the diet of early Neolithic farmers at Frydenlund, Fuenen, in Scandinavia; the study in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
New computational method uncovers surprising variability in Neolithic building practices, according to a new study in Archaeological Research in Asia
Indigenous hunter-gatherer practices play key role in plant dispersal, genetic diversity and conservation, reshaping our idea of agriculture
Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa, from Kakapel; a trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya
All the people who lived and were buried in Barmaz necropolises during the Neolithic period had the same access to food resources
New discoveries found in Iraqi Kurdistan key to the emergence of agriculture and first city-states: the UAB archaeological project
A study reveals the continuous evolutionary history of rice from wild to domesticated over an astonishing span of 100,000 years, confirming that China is the birthplace of rice (Oryza sativa)