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From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution

Excavation of 19,000-year-old hunter-gatherer remains, including a vast camp site, is fuelling a reinterpretation of the greatest fundamental shift in human civilisation - the origins of agriculture.

Archaeologists discover Jordan's earliest buildings

Some of the earliest evidence of prehistoric architecture has been discovered in the Jordanian desert, providing archaeologists with a new perspective on how humans lived 20,000 years ago.

Prehistoric migrants spread farming in Europe

Central and northern Europe’s first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.

A strange way to share food

Close scrutiny of the ancient remains of our ancestors' meals gives us some sense of the development and rationale behind our strange food-sharing behaviour.