Around 12,800 years ago, the Younger Dryas plunged parts of the world back into near-glacial conditions. Yet in the Fertile Crescent, humanity was laying the foundations of agriculture, villages, and ...

The Pleistocene-Holocene transition is a very significant period of time, because it marks what I believe is the true foundartions for the origins of civilisation, when we see the first permanent ...

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires and climate-driven soil erosion. Using charcoal records, isotopic data, and ...