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 ...

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. But a new analysis of DNA from 55 skeletons found in these 5,000-year-old graves suggests that the tombs were ...

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The Cerny people were, however, clearly capable of building large structures. Along the Seine and Yonne Rivers, and more recently at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne on the Caen Plain in Normandy, ...

(CNN) — Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.

There is variability in the level of conscience in individuals (from serial killers to people who have a very strong sense of morality that is not religious dogma masquerading as conscience), as the ...