The Passy-style tombs are a dramatic departure from earlier Neolithic burials not just in terms of their scale, but in what ...

We all know food underpins community: family-style dishes comprise holiday centerpieces, offers of pizza draw college ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

Learn how Neolithic communities transformed seashells into powerful signal horns built for long-distance communication.

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by ...

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to ...

Millions of years ago, early humans lived in a world where survival was anything but guaranteed. Wild predators, unpredictable weather, and deadly diseases constantly threatened their existence. But ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers a timely, evidence-based explanation for one of the most significant turning points in human history: the Neolithic Revolution, which is ...

Almost 12,000 years ago, in the remote recesses of Anatolia, today's southeast Turkey, something happened that, seemingly overnight, completely changed the course of human evolution. Far flung bands ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...

The project area Kreisgrabenanlage & Steinzeitdorf Rechnitz. Credit: Office of the Burgenland State Government, Department 7 – Education, Culture and Science, Archaeology Burgenland in the Science ...

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...