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 ...

We do not have written sources from the Neolithic ... and who were deeply dependent on agriculture. This new insight into a climate episode in the Neolithic period has led archaeologists from ...

Prof Nash highlighted the profound changes in burial practices over the 2,000-year span of the Neolithic period ... coupled with their marginal agricultural value, helped shield many sites ...

The artifacts uncovered during the excavation are from the Neolithic period, one of the ... theories as to why the Neolithic Revolution, also known as the Agricultural Revolution, began ...

Circular dwellings - round houses - are more typical of the Neolithic period which occurred between 4,000 and 2,000BC. It was when people took up agriculture as a way of life and moved away from ...

and the University of Lyon indicate that in the late Neolithic period, agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East (Mesopotamia) had a developed culinary culture.

On the contrary, it seems to indicate a cultural phenomenon: the absence of figurative images coincides with the northward expansion of agriculture ... Åmosen (Maglemose period). Credit: Lennart ...

One such event, in 43 BCE, saw an Alaskan volcano release massive amounts of sulfur into the atmosphere, plunging the Mediterranean into a period of agricultural collapse and famine. Recent evidence ...