A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

The flute unearthed from an important Neolithic settlement in Iran shows how early humans progressed from their primitive ...

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

Dating back to the Neolithic era, the so-called Venus of Kolobrzeg is the first artifact of its kind unearthed in the ...

Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in ...

A rare Stone Age figurine discovered near the Baltic Sea has been confirmed as one of the most significant Neolithic finds in ...

New research has cast doubt over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

More than £40,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund has been given to Cornwall Heritage Trust to excavate the hidden stone circle of Castilly Henge just off the A30 near Bodmin, later this year.

Ditch steel, glass, and reinforced concrete 6,000 years ago, Neolithic engineers in southern Spain were already accomplishing ...