Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of the human population has been far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by sharp declines. The reasons behind these ...

A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub concludes that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in Neolithic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient burial with three skeletons in it. The murder of sacrificial victims by "incaprettamento" — tying their neck to their ...

The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations. At multiple points in our history, populations have dramatically imploded.

The Wartberg culture (WBC, 3500-2800 BCE) dates to the Late Neolithic period, a time of important demographic and cultural transformations in western Europe. We performed genome-wide analyses of 42 ...

Archaeologists in Slovakia unearth 77 headless Neolithic skeletons, exposing a grim, ancient ritual from Europe's earliest ...

Human populations in Neolithic Europe fluctuated with changing climates, according to a new study. Human populations in Neolithic Europe fluctuated with changing climates, according to a study ...

Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe : an introduction / Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- The placement of the feathers : violence among sub-boreal foragers from Gotland ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

The Neolithic burial site of Gurgy 'les Noisats' in France revealed two unprecedentedly large family trees which allowed a Franco-German team to explore the social organization of the 6,700-year-old ...