Excavation of a Neolithic storage bin at the Masis Blur Neolithic settlement on the Ararat Plain, Armenia. Masis Blur Archaeological Project, 2022 Genome-wide DNA data collected from people who lived ...

Munro says the minimalist carving closely matches a twelve thousand year old face unearthed in Israel, hinting at a shared symbolism across early settlements. Archaeologists at Karahantepe in ...

Genetic evidence in modern populations suggests that Neolithic farmers from the Levant traveled mostly by sea to reach Europe. By 7,000 B.C., they were introducing their ideas and their genes to the ...

Sedentism, farming, and agriculture was invented some 10,000 years ago in a region between southeastern Anatolia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, an area traditionally labeled as the Fertile Crescent. Most of ...

Recent research at the Balıklı site, near major obsidian sources, has provided new and important findings about the initial processes of sedentarization on the central Anatolian plateau and the ...

Turkish excavations reveal 8-meter-long street structure and systematic passages providing settlement access, showing sophisticated urban planning in pre-pottery Neolithic period. Turkish ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

At the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in ancient Anatolia (modern Turkey), archaeologists have long wondered about the presence of griffon vulture symbols throughout the settlement and about a series of ...

Ancestors of Early European farmers may have come from around the Aegean sea. Here, satellite image shows the Sea of Marmara, the inland sea that connects the Black Sea (top) to the Aegean Sea (bottom ...

It has long been debated as to whether the transition from a largely hunter-gatherer to an agricultural subsistence strategy in Europe was the result of the migration of farmers from the Near East and ...

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND—A new study suggests that hunter-gatherers living on the Anatolian plateau some 10,000 years ago may have invented farming on their own, or learned to farm through their ...