A small mound on Turkey's Anatolian plateau has yielded the remains of early communities that provide a long-sought link between the prehistoric cultures of the Near East and Europe ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

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 ...

Burying the dead under houses was common at early agricultural villages in ... climate after the ice age was actually wetter, not drier. Another explanation for the Neolithic Revolution, and ...

Discover how Neolithic and Bronze Age people in Turkey changed from hunter ... It is among the earliest places where villages came together and formed a central location, marking the beginning ...

Kieran Dodds This was not a grave but a building, and not Bronze Age but older—Neolithic. And it was thought likely that there was more to be discovered. “I didn’t realize,” Hoey says ...