Charring AuhAug 14, 2025

Contemporary excavation of a #LateNeolithic settlement site

Shandong Province, northeastern China

Maria De AgostoJan 10, 2025
#egalitariansociety #cucutenitrypillia #History #ancienthistory #LateNeolithic #Calcolithic
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04216-1
Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge

Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished.

Matt WillemsenNov 6, 2023
5,000-year-old mass grave of fallen warriors in Spain shows evidence of 'sophisticated' warfare
A new analysis of a mass grave from Neolithic Spain reveals that the site wasn't a burial ground from a massacre, but of fallen warriors.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5000-year-old-mass-grave-of-fallen-warriors-in-spain-shows-evidence-of-sophisticated-warfare #massgrave #warriors #warfare #archeology #LateNeolithic #competition #food
5,000-year-old mass grave of fallen warriors in Spain shows evidence of 'sophisticated' warfare

A new analysis of a mass grave from Neolithic Spain reveals that the site wasn't a burial ground from a massacre, but of fallen warriors.

Live Science
GastroHistoryJun 9, 2023
'During the Middle Neolithic a new ancestry from the Levant appears in the Maghreb, coinciding with the arrival of pastoralism in the region, and all three ancestries blend together during the #LateNeolithic.' https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06166-6 #foodhistory #foraging #agriculture #Maghreb
Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant - Nature

Genome sequencing of nine individuals shows ancestry shifts in the Neolithization of northwestern Africa that probably mirrored a heterogeneous economic and cultural landscape in a more multifaceted process than observed in other regions.

Nature