The Sciences
An Early Farming Village in Turkey
Çayönü Tepesi, a site in a little-studied part of Asia Minor, adds to the growing record of man's agricultural origins. Also revealed there is the earliest evidence of man's use of metal...
Stories by Robert J. Braidwood
Evolution
The Agricultural Revolution
Until some 10,000 years ago all men lived by hunting, gathering and scavenging. Then the inhabitants of hills in the Middle East domesticated plants and animals and founded the first villages...
The Sciences
From Cave to Village
An account of a recent expedition to Iraq which sought the remains of a prehistoric revolution in the life of man: the birth of agriculture and animal husbandry
