The first use of domestic plants and animals in the Western Mediterranean has been a
matter of debate, since there are no native ancestors for these elements. The current …

Demography is the study of population dynamics. The primary foci of demography are rates
and levels of mortality, fertility, and migration and how these all interact to produce …

Abstract The Neolithic transition in Europe was driven by the rapid dispersal of Near Eastern
farmers who, over a period of 3,500 years, brought food production to the furthest corners of …

The transition to farming is the process by which human groups switched from hunting and
gathering wild resources to food production. Understanding how and to what extent the …

The Neolithic Revolution, which witnessed the transformation of hunter–gatherer groups into
farming communities, is traditionally viewed as the event that allowed human groups to …

Was the spread of agropastoralism from the Fertile Crescent throughout Europe influenced
by extreme climate events, or was it independent of climate? We here generate idealized …

Storing information and circulating it between individuals and groups is a critical behaviour
that signals a tipping point in our evolutionary history. Such practices enabled the …

Dates for early cultivation in Finland obtained from pollen analysis and remains from
archaeological sites are compared with the changes in population size derived from the …

The sequencing of the Neanderthal genome answered once and for all the question of
whether these hominins played a role in the origins of modern humans—they did, and a …

Las analíticas genéticas realizadas sobre los uros (Bos primigenius) del yacimiento de
Mendandia (Treviño), han ofrecido un resultado sorprendente: uno de los individuos …