The transition from a hunter-gatherer foraging lifestyle, which humanity had followed for hundreds of thousands of years, to a settled farming one ... new perspective on prehistoric societies.

It traces humanity's journey from prehistoric hunting and gathering to the establishment of agriculture, highlighting the struggles and discoveries that allowed people to cultivate the land and ...

providing insight into many prehistoric transitional periods beyond the transition to farming," the authors conclude.

A shaduf is a long pole with a bucket attached to the end, which people could use to raise and move water from rivers or lakes onto land. Farming was the basis of the entire Ancient Egyptian ...

Genomes from people living in the area of Israel and Jordan ... persisting for centuries if not millennia.” The ancient genomic sequences, which were pulled from bones of the inner ear, indicated that ...

Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented ... the paper explained, people began farming within a few thousand years ...

Research in Honduras shows that humans began selecting for larger fruits with thicker rinds as early as 7,500 years ago—long ...

The shift to farming around 12,000 years ago was a major turning point in human history. It allowed people to settle down ... “Our study provides a new perspective on prehistoric societies,” said ...

before centuries of intensive farming and settlement turned it into the nearly featureless brown expanse it is today. Prehistoric people would have gazed upon herds of gazelle and other wild ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has turned traditional thinking on its head by highlighting the role of human interactions during the shift from hunting ...

A shaduf is a long pole with a bucket attached to the end, which people could use to raise and move water from rivers or lakes onto land. Farming was the basis of the entire Ancient Egyptian ...