An early Neolithic timber hall has been found beneath a school in Scotland, with archaeologists believing it could have been a ceremonial venue for Scotland’s first farming communities. The remains of ...

Rare 7,500-Year-Old Headdress Upends Assumptions About How Early Agricultural Societies Interacted ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history.

Of the many infuriating findings about humankind from throughout history, evidence of inequality between groups of people persists. However, a recent discovery about ancient humans in Valais, ...

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When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Researchers in southern Spain recently discovered and examined the oldest evidence of basketry and sandals in Europe, revealing previously unknown details about hunter-gatherers and farming societies ...

An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices which demonstrate how the first high mountain ...

A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust. At a massive site in southern Turkey called Çatalhöyük, large ...

The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia. To better understand their dynamics of interaction, a team from the ...

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 ...