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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, the figurine has been shown to the public for the very first time, and it’s being called the discovery of the century.

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

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

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

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 ...