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

Ancient bones from France reveal that Neolithic wars may have ended in ritualized executions and trophy-taking. The evidence suggests violence was staged to display dominance and unite communities.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The ...

Archaeological studies of a landscape in eastern Ireland have turned up the greatest number yet of ancient structures that remain rare in that country, and may cast light on the beliefs and burial ...

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 uncovered a rare 7,500-year-old Neolithic figurine in Romania, offering new insight into early farming communities.

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Early humans experienced a rapid population collapse across large parts of Europe five thousand years ago, the ...

BENGALURU: The charred foodgrains that were discarded and fell on the mud house floors of Neolithic settlements have survived ...

From 4th -8th November , 2024, the Southeastern Anatolian city of Şanlıurfa, home to the globally significant Neolithic sites of Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, will host the World Neolithic Congress, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three ...