It is becoming increasingly apparent that urban societies have a growing affection for dogs, while simultaneously developing ...

The environmental history of European empire doesn’t end with decolonisation. The quasi-colonial schemes of the ...

For decades, the prevailing narrative of agriculture pointed to the Middle East. The “Fertile Crescent” was cast as the singular birthplace of farming, its innovations fanning outward to enlighten a ...

Recent excavations have shed new light on the four circular ditches, which were identified in a field near Rechnitz, Austria, ...

In the vast fields where crops stretch as far as the eye can see, a quiet revolution is happening, one that combines the timeless art of farming with the cutting-edge technologies of the 21st century.

A discovery by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Shandong University—together with an international team of scientists working in China, Japan and South Korea—sheds new light on ...

Fossil fuel emissions (all greenhouse gases) are five to seven times that of livestock emissions. Even if all agriculture on Earth stopped, there would still be a climate change problem. Huge pieces ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

Archaeologists excavating one of the most captivating Neolithic sites in central Turkey believe they have uncovered evidence of a 9000-year-old “House of the Dead.” The recent excavations were focused ...

Archaeologists from University College London and elsewhere have examined a molar tooth of a female Bos taurus (cow) discovered at Stonehenge. In 1924, archaeologists recovered the right mandible of ...