A study has revealed that the earliest Neolithic groups to settle some 7,000 years ago in the Pyrenean site of Coro Trasito (Tella, Huesca) used species selection strategies to manufacture their tools ...

Coping with climate change presents a number of challenges, but we may be able to get some hints from our ancestors. A study of tools from an archaeological site outside Jerusalem provides new ...

A number of stone tools dating back to the Neolithic Age have been discovered in a village in North China's Shanxi province, local archaeological authorities said on Dec 18. Zhang Hongbo, a villager ...

Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from the site of Jebel Oraf shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic, shedding new light on the subsistence and lifestyle of ancient peoples in the ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

The grinding tools were buried in ritual deposits, reflecting their high symbolic value and connection to the cycles of time, human life, nature, and the evolution of settlements. A recent study ...

When people in New Guinea started tending crops like yam and fruits around 8,000 years ago, they transformed nearly everything about life on the island. By around 5,000 years ago, people had begun ...

Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be China's largest stone tool processing workshop of the Neolithic Age in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China. The workshop with an area of ...

During the Neolithic Period (around 10000 to 6000 B.C.) humans in the Near East made a drastic transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers settled in villages. A new study finds we can trace this ...

VILLUPURAM: Stone axe tools believed to be from the Neolithic period, dating back about 5,000 years, have been discovered in Veedur village in Villupuram. The discovery was made by Aranga Mayakrishnan ...

Two significant Neolithic archaeological sites, believed to be stone tool production centres, have recently been identified and documented by Yaakkai Heritage Trust. The sites are located on the ...