A construction project for a new elementary school in Leipzig, Germany, has uncovered a 7,000-year-old burial, the oldest ...

A close examination of a frequently visited cave wall in Spain has revealed a spectacular assembly of rock art engravings ...

Instead, the painful evidence was hidden in something much smaller: a stone roughly the size of a grape that had formed ...

Cold conditions may not have been responsible for the centuries-long pause in the spread of farming across south-eastern ...

Someone — or something — struck a Neanderthal in the face with such force that a front tooth split down the middle. The blow ...

Life wasn’t easy for folks in the Bronze Age, but it seems to have been especially difficult for a particular man whose ...

Archaeologists in Portugal found 27,000-year-old pigments that suggest Côa Valley's prehistoric rock art may once have featured painted images.

The origins of the Celtic languages have also long been debated. Some scholars propose that they emerged along the Atlantic and subsequently spread eastwards. Others place their origins in Central ...

Ancient DNA reveals that denizens of the Iberian Peninsula made leather from domestic goats as far back as 7,000 years ago, ...

From pottery, researchers get the first-ever archaeological evidence of a complex plant molecule and early dairy consumption.

A Neolithic cemetery in France reveals a massive human-shaped menhir, 11 graves, an unusual seated burial, and evidence of ...

The Kō site is a complex archaeological site that spreads primarily around Sōja in Fujiidera City, Osaka Prefecture. Located at the northeastern edge of a diluvial plateau near the confluence of the ...