Around 5,700 years ago, a violent episode unfolded inside El Mirador cave in northern Spain. Archaeologists uncovered human remains marked by systematic tool cuts and deliberate fractures, securely ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

Far from the common assumption of a strictly binary division of labor, the roles of women and men in Neolithic Europe were ...

Approximately 9,000 years ago, human communities in Southwest Asia underwent a dramatic transformation, known as the Neolithic revolution. This period was marked by pronounced changes in how they ...

Thousands of similar tunnel systems have been discovered across Europe and despite this, their purpose has been subject to decades of theory and debate.

Within a few centuries, the genetic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse region, including the wetlands, was completely reshaped. Our ...

A new study of early Neolithic bows in Mediterranean finds diverse wood use, highlighting how hunting remained important alongside farming.

A longstanding archaeological question - whether there was early human activity in the West Liaohe River Basin and even the ...

Weighing 6.5 tons and transported to Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago, a new study pegs the Altar Stone's origin to Scotland ...

Archaeologists have revealed a "unique" prehistoric burial featuring the remains of a child whose skeleton displays evidence of unusual marks on its bones. The child's remains were discovered at an ...

Stonehenge's enormous rocks may have been transported to the prehistoric site with the help of pig fat, a scientist has said. Archaeologist Lisa-Marie Shillito say residues of fat on pottery ...

The Neolithic Revolution involved the advent of agriculture, which finally allowed people to settle down in ever-larger groups and focus on things other than procuring calories—things like developing ...