July 11 (Reuters) - Around 5,000 years ago, the population in northern Europe collapsed, decimating Stone Age farming communities across the region. The cause of this calamity, called the Neolithic ...

Explore the Neolithic Age, where farming, animal domestication, pottery, tools, and permanent settlements shaped the first ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Stone Age Britons imported wheat about 8,000 years ago in a surprising sign of sophistication for primitive hunter-gatherers long viewed as isolated from European agriculture, a study ...

New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the Stone Age, some 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwest ...

An exciting and unique find from over 5,000 years ago was uncovered during the construction of a railroad. Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a stone-paved cellar dating back to the Stone Age ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when ...