New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

A new study of ancient DNA from 46 individuals buried across thousands of years in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley has found that farming arrived in the southern Andes not through waves of migrating ...

"This practice needs crops that are able to cooperate, not compete." ...

Planting has never been just a farming task. In many ancient societies, it was treated like a high-stakes appointment with ...

According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase ...

A new study challenges traditional views on humanity's shift from hunting and gathering to farming, highlighting early human interactions.

Early wheat didn’t just grow—it fought. When humans began cultivating fields, plants that could outcompete their neighbors for sunlight and space quickly took over, evolving upright leaves and ...

A new year once began with a lamb.Not on January 1, and not with fireworks. In parts of the ancient Near East, people marked ...