Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

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 ...

NEW STONE AGE MOTHER:Yes that’s your job children; keep the birds off the seeds and that eagle away from our animals. It looks hungry. NARRATOR:Farming began about 10,000 years ago in the Middle ...

About 10,000–12,000 years ago, approximately 18% of individuals in Anatolian farming communities carried this gene variant. The shift from a Paleolithic lifestyle of hunting and gathering to ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

Maybe, says Reich, the resilience of local ancestry is related to resistance to farming practices ... Mediterranean was no great barrier for Stone Age people. Future studies, she expects, might ...