Remains of a cow shed light on how Stonehenge may have been erected. Researchers analyzed a Neolithic cow's molar, and the chemical signatures indicate that it could have been involved in the ...

Around 5,700 years ago, a chilling episode unfolded inside El Mirador cave in northern Spain. Late Neolithic human remains often show evidence of violence, be it from man or beast, but the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered a 6,000-year-old Neolithic home and evidence of Bronze Age cremations while working along the route of a new motorway in Cork. The team, which consists of ...

A single accessory – an ornate necklace from a child’s grave in ancient Jordan – provides new insights into social complexity of Neolithic culture, according to a study published August 2, 2023 in the ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

A study led by the University of Bristol recently found that Neolithic pottery has preserved clues about humanity’s earliest relationships with grains—dating back thousands of years earlier than ...

Far from the common assumption of a strictly binary division of labor, the roles of women and men in Neolithic Europe were both clearly differentiated and flexible, according to a new study conducted ...

Charred hazelnut shells discovered at an archaeological site in Cornwall have pushed back the date for the arrival of the Neolithic period in the region by at least a century. New radiocarbon dating ...

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The 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey is often called the “zero point of history”, said The Archaeologist. But recent excavations at the nearby Mendik Tepe site suggest it dates back even ...