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Neolithic Farmers Buried Grinding Stones to Honor Women, Archeologists Say It Symbolized Their Life Cycles
In the heart of Central Europe, buried beneath the soil of ancient lands, archaeologists have unraveled something far more profound than mere relics of the past. These discoveries—grinding ...
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Neolithic Farmers Used Grinding Stones to Make Porridge and Not Flour, Claim Archaeologists
The area where these discoveries were made was a Neolithic settlement inhabited by the first farmers of Northern Europe. The ...
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The first Europeans weren’t who you might think
Within a thousand years the Neolithic revolution, as it’s called, spread north through Anatolia and into southeastern Europe. By about 6,000 years ago, there were farmers and herders all across ...
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Before Stonehenge
“It’s been assumed that the woodland was cleared away by Neolithic farmers, but that doesn’t seem to have been entirely the case,” says Michelle Farrell, a paleoecologist at Queen’s ...
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Enigmatic Infant Burials in a Neolithic Settlement Reveal That Houses Were Simultaneously Temples or Prehistoric Maternities
In the Iron Gates gorge of the Danube, in present-day Serbia, lies Lepenski Vir, an archaeological site that has been key to ...
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Neolithic DNA Analysis from Northwest Africa Reveals Some Hunter-Gatherers Held Out On Farming
Most farmers from Anatolia (present-day Turkey ... The nine genetic samples used in the study came from three Neolithic burial sites in Tunisia and one in Algeria. Some Tunisian samples suggest traces ...
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What was life like in the Neolithic Stone Age?
The early farmers still went hunting and gathered nuts ... On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone.