‘Sensational’ Discovery Of Large Untouched 4,000-Year-Old Grave In Norway
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists report unearthing an extremely important 4,000-year-old grave in Norway. It’s a sensational discovery and the most unique Stone Age finds in Norway in the last 100 years, says Morten Ramstad at the antiquities section at the University of Bergen. Credit: Universitetsmuseet, UIB The grave provides vital clues as to […]
Cosmic Impact 12,800 Years Ago Forced Hunter-Gatherers In The Levant To Adopt Agricultural Practices
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth’s atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agricultural practices to boost their chances for survival. Depiction of a pre-Younger Dryas pit […]
Agriculture In North America Led To Changes In Age-Independent Mortality
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The transition to agriculture from hunting and gathering in pre-colonial North America led to changes in age-independent mortality, or mortality caused by factors that are not ᴀssociated with age, according to a new study by a Penn State-led research team. The team found that the intensification of crop use occurred […]
Evidence Europeans Used Slash-And-Burn Methods 9,500 Years Ago For Agriculture Purposes
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental data generated by scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (S-HEP) at the University of Tübingen on the basis of two drill cores from […]
New Study Challenges The Beginning Of Civilization
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus in areas of fertile land. Palm orchard in the lower Euphrates valley. Credit: Sergeant James McCauley – Public Domain In “The Origin of the State: […]
What Was The Agriculture Like In Southeast China In The Late Neolithic?
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The emergence and spread of agriculture in the Neolithic had a revolutionary impact on the development of human society, and it provided a solid economic basis for the origin and development of human civilization. In southern China, the original crop was rice, but over time, millet cultivation gradually spread. Affected […]
Ancient Mesopotamian Discovery Changes Our Understanding Of Early Agriculture Practices
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity’s earliest agricultural practices. Their findings appear in the journal Scientific Reports. “Overall, the presence of millet in ancient Iraq during this earlier time period challenges the accepted narrative of agricultural development in […]
Fall Of The Ancient Maya Civilization Not Caused By Climate Change And Environmental Degradation – Scientists Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Many believe climate change and environmental degradation caused the Maya civilization to fall—but a new survey shows that some Maya kingdoms had sustainable agricultural practices and high food yields for centuries. For years, experts in climate science and ecology have held up the agricultural practices of the ancient Maya as […]