Then, towards the end of the Stone Age, a new idea began to spread across Britain… farming. Instead of following or tracking animals over long distances, people began to settle and stay in one ...

Ruins of the New Stone Age can be found throughout China's north ... providing suitable conditions for cultivating rice and developing farming. At the sites, indications of rice cultivation ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...

During the Stone Age, humans in Europe and North Africa mostly lived as hunter-gatherers, gradually transitioning to farming and more complex societies during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, which ...

Thousands of stone ax heads and painted pottery shards found on the site suggest a previously unknown society of hundreds of people — comparable to the size of Bronze Age Troy — who might have ...