In advance of the construction of the SuedOstLink high-voltage direct current transmission line, archaeological ...

Neolithic-era pit filled with beaver bones, Alsleben, Germany. ALSLEBEN, GERMANY—A pit containing the 7,000-year-old remains ...

New genetic and archaeological evidence is reshaping the long-standing narrative of the Neolithic Revolution in North Africa.

A new study reveals the oldest known use of dolomitic lime dates to the Neolithic period, pushing back its origins by nearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

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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 ...

An international research team has pinpointed modern bread wheat’s origins to Neolithic-era Georgia, about 8,000 years ago. Genetic analysis and archaeological remains from sites in the South Caucasus ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...

Researchers discovered 614 stone plaques and fragments at Vasagård West, an archaeological site on the Danish island of Bornholm. National Museum of Denmark Over the years, a variety of mysterious ...

A Neolithic village on the site of the new university campus in Biel/Bienne existed for just under five years before it was ...