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

DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...

Built by the earliest Stone Age farmers, who tilled the soil 6,000 years ago, the “monumental” timber building was described as a find of international significance. No buildi ...

Bryn Celli Ddu is one of Wales’ most important Neolithic monuments. Excavations reveal its construction phases, burial use, and later alterations, shedding light on ritual activity and monument ...

Fran Hollinrake, curator of Kirkwall’s St Magnus Cathedral, was standing in front of a series of medieval relics – a ...

Haemochromatosis is the most common genetic disorder in Northern Ireland and is mostly found in people of Irish and Scots ...

As the Ice Age loosened its grip, new landscapes and harsher reversals reshaped how people lived around the Taurus Mountains, setting the stage for Gobekli Tepe. This chapter follows the evidence for ...

The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn't built for modern diets, which ...

DNA analysis shows strong ties to Early Bronze Age Sicily, with little influence from the eastern Mediterranean. There’s also ...

Murujuga, also known by the modern name Burrup Peninsula, in northwestern Australia, is home to potentially the world’s oldest and most endangered petroglyphs. Some of the more than one million images ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

In a recent study published in Antiquity, Dr. Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues identified more than 600 suspected house ...