Flourishing around 6,500 to 4,900 years ago in the West Liaohe River basin of northeastern China, Hongshan culture is best ...

That changed in 2012, when a local diver found distinctively Neolithic pottery in the water around crannogs in the Outer Hebrides, the windswept islands off of Scotland’s western mainland.

“This discovery highlights the transition from the Neolithic period to the Chalcolithic era, estimated to have occurred between 5200 and 4500 BC.” One of the key findings at the site is the presence ...

Researchers had rarely discovered residential foundations of the Banshan type except for findings ... From sites of early stage of the Qijia culture, a Neolithic culture in the upper reaches ...

The find, announced by the team working at the Siwa site in Lintao, marks a significant breakthrough in understanding this Neolithic ... Majiayao phase, pottery was adorned with black designs, ...

HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, archaeologist Xingtao Wei of Zhengzhou University and his colleagues analyzed residues preserved on three 8,000-year-old pottery tripods ...

The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the ...

The research team analyzed twelve pottery sherds from the early phase ... utilization and widespread cultivation of rice in Neolithic China," said Prof. Liu. The evidence of rice alcohol ...

The team looked at genetic, burial and food data from more than 300 Neolithic individuals belonging to the Linear Pottery Culture, who lived between 5,500 and 5,000 BC and spread farming across ...

The artifacts uncovered during the excavation are from the Neolithic period, one of the most pivotal revolutions in human history. Animal remains found during the dig allude to Neolithic husbandry ...

This pottery belongs to Wadi Rabah culture which thrived in southern Levant in 5th millennium BC (Photo courtesy of Forum Ancient Coins) AMMAN — Located in northern Jordan, Basatin is a site where ...

The other, Atlit Yam, just north of the Habonim site, dates from 8000-9000 years ago, just before the development of pottery. It features a huge stone Neolithic circle, burial sites, stone ...