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SKorea claims East Asia's oldest farming site
Seoul :: South Korea | 11 months ago
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South Korea (AP) — South Korea's archaeological agency says it has unearthed evidence of East Asia's oldest known farming site. Archaeologist Cho Mi-soon said Wednesday that the agency has found the remains of a farming field
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Remains of East Asia's oldest agricultural site found in Goseong
Jakarta :: Indonesia | 11 months ago
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According to the institute, the discovery of the archaeological traces, which mostly consist of pieces of earthenware, proves people living on the Korean Peninsula started cultivating crops during the Neolithic period. Along with the stoneware pieces,
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Stone tools that revolutionised study of India's pre-history
Tiruvallūr :: India | 12 months ago
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On display at the Government Museum, Chennai, for a few days from June 11 are two stone tools discovered by geologist Robert Bruce Foote in May and September 1863 at the Brigade Ground at Pallavaram, Chennai, and Attirampakkam village in Tiruvallur
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Do class divisions go all the way back to the Stone Age? [Archaeology]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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Figuring out exactly when people started to separate into different social strata is one of the tricky, nebulous areas of archaeological research. When and why did humans move from egalitarianism to inherited land, wealth, and power? And now, new
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Social Status Existed Even in the Stone Age
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 12 months ago
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May 28, 2012 European archaeologists have unearthed evidence that early Neolithic farmers had differential access to fertile land over 7,000 years ago. The researchers looked at over 300 skeletons collected from digs spanning central Europe. They
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The only gay in the Stone Age village: Scientists find Czech long houses - and one male skeleton buried amongst the women
Prague :: Czech Republic | 1 year ago
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9 May 2012 Archeologists who uncovered the first homosexual caveman have discovered the prehistoric village where he was 'the only gay' man...Now the same team of experts have discovered what they believe was his home village near Prague in the Czech
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Ancient migration: Coming to America
Clovis :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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It was perfect prey for a band of hunters, wielding spears tipped with needle-sharp points made from bone...Almost 14,000 years later, there is no way to tell how many hits it took to bring the beast to the ground near the coast of present-day
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DNA shows how Stone Age farmers mixed with hunters
Stockholm :: Sweden | 1 year ago
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The research, by a Swedish-Danish team and published in the US journal Science , sheds light on an oft-debated chapter of human history how did agriculture spread from the Middle East to Europe? Scientists believe that farming originated in the
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Farming 'spread by migrant wave'
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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A new study of DNA from ancient remains provides further evidence that farming was first spread to Europe by migrants. It casts doubt on the alternative theory in which agriculture was adopted by Europe's existing hunter-gatherer populations,
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Study: Ancient migrants spread farming in Europe
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Thousands of years ago, farming spread across Europe and replaced the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of early inhabitants. Now a study of ancient DNA says that trend was driven by farmers moving from place to place. Scientists have
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