Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown early farming society from the Neolithic period, otherwise known as the New Stone Age, a study reports. Research conducted at the ...

Explore 10 amazing Stone Age facts highlighting early human tools, lifestyles, survival skills, discoveries, and innovations ...

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 ...

Prehistoric people who adopted farming as a way of life underwent evolutionary changes to adapt to their new lifestyle, a dramatic example of natural selection operating on the human species in the ...

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 ...

Women and men were both sacrificed in ancient China – but for different reasons - Study also provides first evidence of male ...

Maïté Rivollat is affiliated with the MPI-EVA in Leipzig (Germany), Bordeaux University (France), Ghent University (Belgium) and Durham University (UK). Adam "Ben" Rohrlach does not work for, consult, ...

Murdering sacrificial victims by tying their necks to their legs bent behind their backs may have been a “cultural phenomenon” in late Stone Age Europe, a new study of bodies uncovered in France ...

Human statues found hidden in the wall of Gobeklitepe: a 12,000-year-old discovery that reopens the mystery of the world's ...