A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC. The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may ...

A new study has revealed evidence found at a prehistoric structure could be part of the key to unlocking the centuries-old mystery surrounding Stonehenge. Aberystwyth University researchers determined ...

The advent of food production took place in the Near East over 10,000 years and sparked profound changes in the ways human societies were organized. A new study, published in the journal PloS One by ...

More than 7,000 years ago, people navigated the Mediterranean Sea using technologically sophisticated boats, according to a study published March 20, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Juan ...

Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The Xiatang site in Zhejiang Province offers something far rarer. Excavations ...

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...

For years, the Loch Bhorgastail crannog on the Isle of Lewis appeared from above to be a stone-built artificial island. However, the Islands of Stone project, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research ...

An international team of researchers, including the involvement of the Research Group in Archaeology of the Mediterranean and the Near East (GRAMPO) of the Department of Prehistory at the UAB, ...

Inhabitants of the Neolithic community at la Draga already used fungi to light or transport fires 7,300 years ago. The discovery represents one of the oldest examples of technological use of fungi ...