Neolithic News

Men migrated more frequently than women during the Neolithic Transition, when populations switched from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to cultures based on agriculture, according to new research reported at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences web site on October 31, 2011.

Mehrgarh is a Neolithic site on the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, Pakistan, and one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in south Asia.

Norfolk postcard: Grime's GravesNorfolk's not normally a county associated with mining.

A 1,000-year-old boat burial of a Viking warrior was discovered by British archaeologists in the Scottish Highlands on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, west coast.