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 ...

For more than 1,000 years during the Neolithic period, pastoralists in central Anatolia decorated their razor-sharp obsidian arrowheads with strange geometric designs. Such behaviors have never been ...

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from several countries has found evidence of the birth of pre-ceramic Neolithic populations in a region of what is now Turkey. In their paper published ...

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) AMMAN - In early 2022, eight dwelling sites were discovered in south-eastern Jordan, directly associated with eight mass-hunting structures- desert kites. These associated sites ...

In the deserts of southeastern Jordan around 9,000 years ago, hunters erected a stone shrine that is one of the earliest ritual structures ever unearthed. A team led by archaeologists Mohammad ...

The investigated area of Wadi Nafūn, in Oman, where a mass grave dating back to the Neolithic period was discovered. Credit: Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences A team from the ...

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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 ...