A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires ...

The phrase “Neolithic Revolution” was coined ... dry land was at least seven miles away. Why would a farming community of 8,000 people establish a settlement so far from its fields?

Early DNA work found that the people who built these monuments ... major shift after the first four centuries of farming in Ireland. In the early Neolithic, the small, simpler tombs are paralleled ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution ... ideal locations for early farming communities." ...

A reconstruction drawing of villagers at Skara Brae. Skara Brae was the home of a Neolithic farming community. The people who lived here were able to grow some crops and they kept cows ...

Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most significant turning points: the Neolithic Revolution ... and gathering to farming in the southern ...