A small carved stone, pulled from the soil of eastern Türkiye, is forcing archaeologists to rethink how sophisticated some of the world’s earliest farming communities really were. The 7,500-year-old ...

Rare 7,500-Year-Old Headdress Upends Assumptions About How Early Agricultural Societies Interacted ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect the ...

What if the best record of your daily habits was stuck inside something that looks like a lump of old chewing gum? For Europe’s first farmers, that sticky record came from birch trees. A new ...

Hellas / Greece started in villages long time ago before our common era, going back to more than seven thousands years BCE. Archaeologists call that prehistoric period Neolithic (new stone age).

Archaeologists working a vast Neolithic site in northeast France have uncovered what they say is the last piece of the puzzle -- traces of a permanent settlement.

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 47-59 (13 pages) This paper gives an overview of domesticated and wild plants used during the second half of the fourth ...

Even in the Neolithic era, people loved bling. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 2, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

INVERNESS, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that erosion on the island of Orkney at the northern end of the Bay of Skaill has exposed deer antlers, a boar tooth, a cattle jawbone, and a large stone ...

Approximately 7,000 years ago, a group of ancient humans built the first-known seawall in an attempt to keep rising tides from inundating their village. It's the earliest known structure of its type ...