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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a ...

Roughly 5,000 years ago, a man’s body was placed inside a kiln at the Neolithic site of Gerstewitz in Central Europe. He was ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago. Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ...

The specialization in sheep farming in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion of these communities and the spread of agriculture throughout ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pillar and a human statue stand at the Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding ...

A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal lineage, according to researchers at Peking University. Ancient DNA from ...

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, ...

The specialization in sheep in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion of these communities and the spread of agriculture throughout the ...

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 demonstrates that specialized buildings ...