The deep stratigraphy preserved on the tell has the potential to answer many questions related to development and change of societies in the Neolithic period. Criterion (iv): Ancient Jericho/Tell ...

Hebrew University researcher says lightning-ignited blazes transformed Levant's landscape, ending hunter-gatherer lifestyle ...

While the Paleolithic period involved a nomadic lifestyle and the invention of stone tools, the Neolithic period was ushered in with the development of agriculture and settled communities.

Building 42 is one of more than a dozen mud-brick dwellings under excavation at Catalhoyuk, a 9,500-year-old Neolithic, or New Stone Age ... controlled city of Jericho and at sites in Syria ...

Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most significant turning points: the Neolithic Revolution ... to an intense period of natural wildfires ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

They began to set up farms. These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as setting up farms and permanent homes, they also built ...

Though they will eventually to fused, beauty and vitality developed separately because of "cosmic anxiety" prevalent in the neolithic period, Read said. "A desire for a secret language with ...

The analysis also offers new insights into broader lifestyle and relational shifts in Irish Neolithic society. During the early part of the period, individuals lived in small, tight-knit communities.

This small stone axehead is made from volcanic tuff and dates from the neolithic period. It would have been used, with an attached handle, for tasks such as chopping wood. The axehead was ...