Archaeologists working at Karahan Tepe, a Neolithic ceremonial site in southeastern Turkey, have built a case that wild ...

Bowhunting during the Neolithic period may have been one of the pillars of unity as a group of primitive human societies. This is one of the main conclusions reached by a team of Spanish ...

Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years BCE. This is shown in a new study by SNSB and ...

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) AMMAN - In early 2022, eight dwelling sites were discovered in south-eastern Jordan, directly associated with eight mass-hunting structures- desert kites. These associated sites ...

A flint artifact used for processing beaver carcasses, found in its original context. Credit: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Klaus Bentele. The context of the works for a ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN—A study of hunting implements unearthed at La Draga, which included the three wooden bows discovered in 2012, suggests that hunting was a social activity for the early farmers who ...

This study reports new genome-wide data for 101 prehistoric individuals from 12 archaeological sites in today's France and Germany, dating from 7000-3000 BCE, and documents levels of admixture between ...

Besides mammals, ranging from aurochs to hares, or fish, foragers also pursued an impressively large spectrum of bird species in Southeast Anatolia 11,000 years ago. They were hunted mainly, but not ...

Birds were an important source of food for hunter-gatherer communities in Upper Mesopotamia at the beginning of the Neolithic period, around 9,000 years BCE. This is shown in a new study by SNSB and ...