Human settlements are the foundation of human existence, shaping how we live, work, and connect with each other and the environment. From the earliest tribal encampments to the bustling ...

When archaeologists recently visited the grounds of Wales' Fonmon Castle, they expected to find evidence of a prehistoric ...

Unusual finds fuel new ideas about the impetus ... It’s now clear that the first year-round, permanent human settlements predated agriculture by at least 3,000 years. In the late 1980s, a ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal distributions of wealth correlated with longer-term human settlement.