The Natufian culture, a bridge between the Paleolithic and Neolithic, marks early settlement, farming, and symbolic art in ...

Researchers at a dig site in Spain discovered tools from some of the first farmers, possibly dating back 7,000 years. The ...

Karahantepe, Turkey ...

Project, featured on cover of Archaeology Magazine, underscoring its growing importance in reshaping understanding of early ...

A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC. The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may ...

Stonehenge's enormous rocks may have been transported to the prehistoric site with the help of pig fat, a scientist has said. Archaeologist Lisa-Marie Shillito say residues of fat on pottery ...

Beyond the north coast of Scotland lie the Orkney Islands, an archipelago of more than 70 islands scattered across the North Sea like breadcrumbs. Long winters, raking winds, and a treeless landscape ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive series of Neolithic-era pits very close to the Stonehenge site in southern England. As with Stonehenge itself its purpose remains a mystery, but the mere ...

A key unanswered issue in human prehistory is the extent to which cultural change identifiable in the archaeological record can be ascribed to the movements of people, as opposed to the movements of ...

The Ness of Brodgar lies on a narrow isthmus between two lochs It sounds like the cruellest of tasks. Spend twenty years digging in the dirt of a narrow, wind-battered strip of land between two lochs.

The Neolithic Revolution involved the advent of agriculture, which finally allowed people to settle down in ever-larger groups and focus on things other than procuring calories—things like developing ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of tiny islands around Scotland didn't arise naturally. They're fakes that were ...