Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

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A rare Stone Age figurine discovered near the Baltic Sea has been confirmed as one of the most significant Neolithic finds in ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

Dr Eline Schotsmans has co-authored major new findings showing the “world’s first city” may have venerated women as the ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland 5500 years ago.

The domesticated rice was transported by the first islanders, who sailed 2,300 kilometres of open ocean from the Philippines ...

In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread ...

Excavations of the Eastern tell have revealed 18 levels of Neolithic occupation dating from 7,400-6,200 BC that have provided unique evidence of the evolution of prehistoric social organisation and ...