DNA analysis of ancient remains from northwestern China has unveiled a chilling picture of ritualized sacrifice in a 4,000-year-old Neolithic society, where men and women met drastically different ...

Human statues found hidden in the wall of Gobeklitepe: a 12,000-year-old discovery that reopens the mystery of the world's ...

Your pet dog -- and every other dog in the world -- most likely descended from a single population of wolves that lived 20,000 to 40,000 years ago, according to a new study in the journal Nature ...

A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master ...

African Neolithic / by Stanley H. Ambrose -- Nile Valley: pre-agricultural cultures / by Wilma Wetterstrom --Saharan neolithic / by Barbara Barich -- The Late Stone Age and Neolithic cultures of West ...

The earliest sites from the UAE, known prior to the latest discoveries, have been dated to the Neolithic or Late Stone Age period, around 7,500 years ago. The discoveries were made at Jebel Faya, ...

A huge stash of reddish minerals from a cave in Ethiopia shows how Stone Age people gradually adapted their technologies and practices over a 4500-year period. “It’s one of the rare sites where we can ...

Experts from the Olomouc Archaeological Center recently uncovered a large Celtic cremation burial site dating to the 3rd–2nd centuries BC. Besides this, skeletal graves belonging to the 9th–10th ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence which may shed new light on the distant origins of British identity - at an ancient festival site. It’s long been known that the word Britain is derived from a ...