Archaeologists uncovered 6,500-year-old mysterious earthwork circles in Austria’s Burgenland, older than the pyramids and ...

A discovery in Uzbekistan shows that the roots of farming stretched far beyond the Fertile Crescent. The emergence of ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

Patrick McGovern, who has died aged 80, was an “alcohol archaeologist” who created authentic ales and wines using residues from ancient pots and showed, in effect, that the progress of civilisation ...

What do we know about the last hunter-gatherers who lived in West Africa? While these prehistoric populations have been ...

They were likely “members of a raiding party who were captured and subjected to capital punishment,” the authors write, and ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

An open field in Scotland was set to be dotted with the homes of a fresh new subdivision. But right as the project was ...

A piece of resin gum from 5,700 years ago reveals the DNA, diet, and microbes from the body of a prehistoric woman.

A community conflict likely led to the deaths of these 11 people. This act of 'ultimate elimination' likely meant to obliterate an entire household.

In a recent study by Dany Coutinho-Nogueira and his colleagues, the remains of three non-adults from Cabeço da Amoreira were ...