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 ...

Two newly uncovered stone circles in the windswept Dartmoor uplands of southwest England are providing fresh insights into Neolithic history. These ancient monuments, estimated to be around 5,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

SHIMAO, CHINA—La Brújula Verde reports that an extensive genetic study of human remains found at the site of Shimao in Shaanxi Province is providing new insights into the population of one of ancient ...

Precious little is known about the Neolithic era in Britain—a problem most prominently exemplified by Stonehenge. Theories abound as to the origins of the 5,000-year-old structure, ranging from ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...

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 ...