The Neolithic revolution began around 10,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Mountain tribes from the east and nomads from the Syro-Arabian desert occupied the fertile lands of Lower Mesopotamia. The ...

Immigration among Neolithic people caused Mesopotamia to be genetically diverse - study Findings show that Çayönü was a genetically diverse population because it carried mixed ancestry from the west ...

Excavation of a Neolithic storage bin at the Masis Blur Neolithic settlement on the Ararat Plain, Armenia. Masis Blur Archaeological Project, 2022 Genome-wide DNA data collected from people who lived ...

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 ...

In eastern Europe, in Ukraine, a site discovered more than fifty years ago is drawing renewed attention from researchers. A team of archaeologists believes it may be one of the oldest cities in the ...

EXPECTATION of the importance of the results likely to be obtained by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the British School of Archæology in Iraq to Tell Arpachiyah in northern Mesopotamia ...

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 ...