A study utilizing present-day genomes reveals that Indians descend from Neolithic Iranian farmers, Eurasian Steppe ...

More than 300 acres of historic farmland in the South Downs National Park are to be restored to nature in one of the UK’s largest ever Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) projects.

Until now, the phenotypic diversity among European hunter-gatherers was only known from a small number of fossils and was thought to be fairly homogeneous,” said Dr. Maïté Rivollat, lead geneticist of ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

The first farmers who swept into Europe 6000 to 7000 years ago may have grown too big for their britches ... They reasoned that the more dates for Neolithic settlements in a region, ...

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...

Poppies are believed to have arrived some 5,000 years ago as early Neolithic farmers found the county's chalk downs to their liking. The tiny black seeds of the plant, which is now considered ...

Oldest Evidence of Winemaking Discovered at 8,000-Year-Old Village. Contrary to stereotypes, Stone Age people had a taste for finer things.

Ancestral Menominee farmers grew corn, beans and squash in earthen mounds they built on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Madeleine McLeester Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans ...

Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural ...