New excavations and geomagnetic data from the Eilsleben site in Germany reveal a massive, fortified outpost dating back to ...

Did ancient people practice equality? While stereotypes may suggest otherwise, the remains of one Neolithic society reveal evidence that both men and women, as well as locals and foreigners, were all ...

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 ...

"Karahan Tepe and the wider Stone Hills project show a highly organised society with its own symbolic world and belief structures" overturning earlier ideas of a "primitive" Neolithic world, he said. ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age. The unusual site, located in the ...

Researchers on the Danish island of Bornholm found a connection between ancient volcanic eruptions and prehistoric rituals involving sun stones. These engraved stone plaques appear to have been ...

Multi-disciplinary archaeological survey at the site of Oued Beht, Morocco, reveals a previously unknown 3400–2900 BC farming society. This is the earliest and largest agricultural complex yet found ...

[Related: Neolithic surgeons might have practiced their skull-drilling techniques on cows.] In a study published July 26 in the journal Nature, a team of scientists used roughly 7,000 year-old DNA to ...

(Fulya OZERKAN/AFP/AFP) On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's ...