All societies, ancient and modern, lay a great deal of emphasis on how their dead should be buried. In a cave in southern Spain, researchers have discovered the extent to which Middle-Neolithic-age ...

Maria Guagnin et al/The Conversation About 12,000 years ago, high up on a cliff in the desert of northern Arabia, an artist (or perhaps artists) was hard at work. Standing on a narrow ledge and with ...

Chewing gum isn’t just a modern-day pastime; it holds clues to the ancient past. A fascinating study conducted by researchers from the University of Copenhagen sheds new light on Neolithic communities ...

Thousands of years ago, humans in the Neolithic villages of Syria lived, worked, and raised families. Their teeth now reveal to us how their ancient community life unfolded. Scientists from Durham and ...

Sometime in the 6th millennium B.C.E., tribes that had for centuries roamed the eastern foothills of the Alps began abandoning hunting and gathering. In place of a nomadic lifestyle, these tribes ...

A discovery by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Shandong University—together with an international team of scientists working in China, Japan and South Korea—sheds new light on ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...

For centuries, a nondescript field near Rechnitz, Austria, held an ancient secret that sat just out of sight. Virtually invisible to the naked eye beneath waves of grass was a series of earthwork ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

A new study has revealed the reasons for particularly brutal Neolithic murders and mutilations. A group of researchers recently conducted isotopic analyses on Neolithic remains found over a decade ago ...

(CN) — Cannibalism, whether to stave off death by starvation or within the confines of ritual ceremony, is regarded as one of the most extreme human practices. And there are still many questions as to ...

The Neolithic Age may be something of a misnomer, falsely offering stone rather than perishable wood as the period’s primary building material, but its monumental architectures sure make a compelling ...