What ancient dung reveals about Epipaleolithic animal tending Research suggests possibility that hunter-gatherers started animal tending before crop cultivation, over 12,000 years ago Date: September ...

When an archaeologist working on an excavation site in Jordan first swept up the tiny black particles scattered around an ancient fireplace, she had no idea they were going to change the history of ...

AMMAN – Climatic changes directly affected resource availability, which in turn necessitated a change in the land use strategies, said the American archaeologist Geoffrey Clark from Arizona State ...

A settlement dating back 14,000 years was discovered for the first time on the west coast of Turkey, the German Archaeological Institute announced on Tuesday. The discovery of the site itself was made ...

Yeshurun, Reuven and Yaroshevich, Alla. 2014. "Bone projectile injuries and Epipaleolithic hunting: New experimental and archaeological results." Journal of ...

The discovery of Şika Rika 5, in the province of Mardin, provides the first solid evidence of human settlements from the Epipaleolithic period outside the Tigris Valley, challenging theories about the ...