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 ...

New research published in the journal Science Advances challenges previous theories about prehistoric conflict by offering a detailed look into the lives and deaths of victims of what could be one of ...

A Neolithic monument with two Islamic burials that took into account the design of the dolmen reveals how the ancient ...

Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe : an introduction / Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- The placement of the feathers : violence among sub-boreal foragers from Gotland ...

Volunteers and archaeologists rebuilt the tomb site, lifting massive stones with modern excavation tools. Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology / Barbara Fritsch The ...

A new interdisciplinary study has revealed that one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments was used for burial thousands of years after it was built, offering rare insight into how ancient sites ...