Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists unearthing a site known as Canhasan 3 Höyük, located within Turkey's Karaman province, have uncovered “the world’s ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

An ancient kitchen discovered in Turkey's Karahan Tepe offers a glimpse into prehistoric cooking and daily life.

In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, Ron Pinhasi from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences (HEAS) at the ...

A small carved stone, pulled from the soil of eastern Türkiye, is forcing archaeologists to rethink how sophisticated some of the world’s earliest farming communities really were. The 7,500-year-old ...

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 ...

A vast paleogenetic study reveals insights on migration patterns, the expansion of farming and language development from the Caucasus over western Asia and Southern Europe from the early Copper Age ...