The burial was found to contain the remains of a child with mysterious bone modifications. The M511 Neolithic burial at the Jiahu archaeological site in China is shown in this image.

In 2020, archaeologists in Ireland first announced a startling find at Newgrange, a giant Neolithic burial chamber 30 miles ...

In what the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) is calling an “unprecedented” discovery ...

Scientists have lifted the lid on the discovery of two female skeletons inside a Neolithic-era chert-mining shaft.

Farmer builds first Neolithic-style burial chamber in Britain for 5,000 years - and it can be your final resting place for £1,000. Farmer in Wiltshire claims his burial chamber will be ready by ...

Archaeologists in France have excavated a Neolithic site containing 63 burials and hundreds of structures and artifacts from a human occupation spanning roughly 4,000 years. The site in Clermont ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered a "surprisingly complex" ancient burial system, complete with animal sacrifices, during a dig in central Germany. The excavation site is near Magdeburg ...

Of the 19 human burials in the Neolithic cemetery at Fleury-sur-Orne in Normandy, the team analyzed the DNA of 14 individuals; but only one was female.

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

Archaeologists have found early evidence of prehistoric body piercing in human burials dated to around 11,000 years ago. In a study recently published in the journal Antiquity, a team 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 ...

The burial, known as M511, is located in a central cluster at the site dating to around 6,000 B.C. This cluster contains distinctive finds and features that were possibly associated with rituals ...