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For earliest farmers, agriculture was a step backward
A new study by economist and Professor Sam Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, suggests that the agricultural revolution that saw the advent of farming and herding 12,000 years ago was, in...
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Maya farming on the edge
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati in the United States, are investigating why a highly sophisticated civilization decided to build large, bustling cities next to what is essentially...
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The Neolithic of Britain: island excavations
Archaeologists at the University of Liverpool are investigating three island groups around Britain to further understand why, in approximately 4,000 BC, humans altered their lifestyle from hunting and...
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Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture
Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. Researchers at the University of York...
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Early farming sites discovered in Albania
A former wetlands region of Albania that was largely cut off from Western researchers until recently, is now revealing a landscape of early farming. The University of Cincinnati is working in...
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Oldest island farm in Mediterranean found on Cyprus
The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French archaeologists involving CNRS, the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, INRAP,...
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The deforestation of Central Africa: Man or climate?
It is a much debated question: why did Central African forests become partially fragmented between 2,500 and 2,000 years ago, leaving room for more open forest landscapes and savannah? Recently, a...
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Confirmation that Near East farmers bring agriculture to Europe
Archaeologists have long debated how farming spread into Europe; the first agrarian societies appeared in the 7th millennium BCE, attested by one of the earliest farming sites of Europe, discovered in...
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Population crash after introduction of agriculture into Europe
Research shows that the introduction of agriculture in Europe was followed by regional population crashes despite trends of demographical growthThe post Population crash after introduction of...
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Rainforests reveal new picture of human interaction
The rain forests of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Thailand and Vietnam were previously thought to have been largely unaffected by humans, but new research suggests otherwise
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