"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A strange gap in the contents of a 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb outside Paris may explain not only a ...

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.

A large-scale DNA study of a Neolithic tomb near Paris reveals a complete population turnover around 3000 BC. Genetic evidence from 132 individuals shows earlier farmers were replaced by migrants from ...

Did ancient people practice equality? While stereotypes may suggest otherwise, the remains of one Neolithic society reveal evidence that both men and women, as well as locals and foreigners, were all ...

An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they ...

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Turkey, working with one colleague from Austria and two from Sweden, has found evidence via genetic analysis of a blend of demographics ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The famed neolithic decline that struck around 3100 B.C.E. in northern Europe has a new scientific explanation. A distinct population drop across ...

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