To get to Cave 338, high in the Pyrenees mountains, you must go primarily by foot. That’s exactly what a team of ...

The Neolithic pit found in Alsleben was filled with the remains of beavers that were skinned by hunters from the ...

The hike to Cave 338 is tough. You start at the Monastery of Núria in the eastern Pyrenees, which is already pretty high.

Ancient people in the eastern Pyrenees spent more time at high altitudes than archaeologists previously expected, according ...

New genetic and archaeological evidence is reshaping the long-standing narrative of the Neolithic Revolution in North Africa.

Universalist explanation and prehistoric figures -- Comparison and context -- The questions we ask of images -- A cross-cultural explanation for female figurines? -- Mesoamerican figurines and the ...

A stone seal found at the archaeological site of Tadım Fortress in Türkiye reveals how Neolithic people lived 7,500 years ago. The seal is thought to possibly have identifying information to mark ...

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...

The “sacred arc” theory might sound like a plot point straight out of a fantasy novel, but it really describes an archaeologist’s suspicion that Stone Age people in southwestern England built a ...

Recently, Mutin and geochemist Antoine Zazzo of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris led a team that used new methods of radiocarbon dating to analyze tooth enamel from 23 Neolithic people ...