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
Butchered bones from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren suggest violent ‘othering’ of enemies in Bronze Age Britain
Iberian Neolithic societies had a deep knowledge of archery techniques and materials, according to a new study in Scientific Reports
Central Europe’s first farmers from the Linear Pottery Culture lived in equality; the genetic study also reveals long-distance travelling in Neolithic societies
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
12,000-year old stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel may be spindle whorls, a very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A new study shows how Early Pyrenean Neolithic groups at Coro Trasito applied species selection strategies to produce bone artefacts
According to a new study, the plague may have been a contributing factor to the population collapse in the end of the Neolithic, known as the Neolithic decline, in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
The first direct proof of the consumption and processing of dairy products in the Pyrenees already at the start of the Neolithic period, approximately 7,500 years ago