Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

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

Stonehenge's enormous rocks may have been transported to the prehistoric site with the help of pig fat, a scientist has said. Archaeologist Lisa-Marie Shillito say residues of fat on pottery ...

Beyond the north coast of Scotland lie the Orkney Islands, an archipelago of more than 70 islands scattered across the North Sea like breadcrumbs. Long winters, raking winds, and a treeless landscape ...

The Ness of Brodgar lies on a narrow isthmus between two lochs It sounds like the cruellest of tasks. Spend twenty years digging in the dirt of a narrow, wind-battered strip of land between two lochs.

Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC. The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may ...

A key unanswered issue in human prehistory is the extent to which cultural change identifiable in the archaeological record can be ascribed to the movements of people, as opposed to the movements of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of tiny islands around Scotland didn't arise naturally. They're fakes that were ...