A photographic library of artifacts from Neolithic sites recovered from a group of over 70 islands located north of Scotland.
An essay arguing that people began cultivating some crops long before they embraced agriculture, and that crop cultivation and village life often did not go hand in hand.
A gallery of stone tools from the Faiyum Oasis of Egypt dated to approximately 4200 - 3800 BC.
The neolithic man discovered in an Italian glacier in 1991 carried a bow and arrows, leading archaeologists to label him a hunter. Chemical analysis of his hair now indicates that he was a vegetarian.
An article by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger that speculates on evolutionary factors driving the Neolithic Revolution.
Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.
A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture.
Provides a general overview of global plant domesitication beginning in the Neolithic. Includes archaeological discoveries in both Old and New worlds.
Prehistoric farmers in what is now northeastern Ohio whose culture was the culmination of almost 12,000 years of prehistoric occupation.
Stanford researchers find that genetics can predict the presence of certain artifacts, supporting theories that prehistoric people migrated from the Middle East to Europe, reports Science Daily.
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