A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Early humans experienced a rapid population collapse across large parts of Europe five thousand years ago, the ...

Around 5,700 years ago, a chilling episode unfolded inside El Mirador cave in northern Spain. Late Neolithic human remains often show evidence of violence, be it from man or beast, but the ...

Ancient genomes from northwest Europe show that farming, foraging, migration, and marriage shaped prehistory in ways far more ...

Aberystwyth University-led research has shared new findings clarifying that the enigmatic "Newall boulder" from Stonehenge was transported by Neolithic people, not by glacial transport, from Craig ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." New evidence uncovered at a dig site in Huesca, Spain, gives us a snapshot into what daily agricultural ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...

Prehistoric Britons may have gathered at Stonehenge for Olympics-style games at midwinter, the curator of the ancient ...

While 'surgical' practices such as trepanations are well attested since the first stages of the European Neolithic, the amputation of limbs in Prehistoric periods has not been well-documented until ...