On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved Neolithic villages in European history. Currently under excavation, this ...

In a series of small, clustered archaeological sites along the Llobregat River basin in Catalonia, a pattern has quietly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pillar and a human statue stand at the Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding ...

Spanish archaeologists have revived the sound of 6,000-year-old Neolithic shell horns, capable of producing powerful notes ...

Archaeological studies of a landscape in eastern Ireland have turned up the greatest number yet of ancient structures that remain rare in that country, and may cast light on the beliefs and burial ...

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A study has revealed that the earliest Neolithic groups to settle some 7,000 years ago in the Pyrenean site of Coro Trasito (Tella, Huesca) used species selection strategies to manufacture their tools ...

A County Wicklow hillfort has been declared the largest, nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain by ...

Archaeologists have found early evidence of prehistoric body piercing in human burials dated to around 11,000 years ago. In a study recently published in the journal Antiquity, a team of researchers ...

It’s the real first wave of feminism. Neolithic society was more egalitarian than previously thought according to a new comprehensive genetic study. Central Europeans from 5,500 BC — considered by ...