New computational method uncovers surprising variability in Neolithic building practices, according to a new study in Archaeological Research in Asia
During the Late Neolithic, in the Fertile Crescent, a complex culinary tradition that included the baking of large loaves of bread and focaccia was developed
Ancient Syrian diets resembled the modern “Mediterranean Diet”; researchers analyzed chemistry of plant, animal, human remains to study historic food chain
Movement of crops, animals played a key role in domestication, as a long-term gene flow between wild and domestic species was much more common than previously appreciated
Plant seed and fruit analysis from Tell es-Safi/Gath, the biblical home of Goliath, sheds unprecedented light on Philistine ritual practices
Genomics and archaeology rewrite the Neolithic Revolution in the Maghreb, according to a new study published in Nature
The first prehistoric wind instruments (known as flutes) in the Levant have been found at the site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel
Early European farmers borrowed genes from hunter-gatherers to survive disease, according to a new study in Current Biology
A new study has revealed the earliest known evidence of the use of the hallucinogenic drug opium, and psychoactive drugs in general, in the world
The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük: new insights about how the inhabitants of the “oldest city in the world” buried their dead
