Around 5,700 years ago, a chilling episode unfolded inside El Mirador cave in northern Spain. Late Neolithic human remains often show evidence of violence, be it from man or beast, but the ...

A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Early humans experienced a rapid population collapse across large parts of Europe five thousand years ago, the ...

Aberystwyth University-led research has shared new findings clarifying that the enigmatic "Newall boulder" from Stonehenge was transported by Neolithic people, not by glacial transport, from Craig ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." New evidence uncovered at a dig site in Huesca, Spain, gives us a snapshot into what daily agricultural ...

New DNA evidence shows that Europe’s hunter-gatherers and early farmers interacted far more closely than previously thought, with women likely playing a crucial role in spreading farming across ...

While 'surgical' practices such as trepanations are well attested since the first stages of the European Neolithic, the amputation of limbs in Prehistoric periods has not been well-documented until ...

The Neolithic farmers and herders who built a massive stone chamber in southern Spain nearly 6,000 years ago possessed a good rudimentary grasp of physics, geometry, geology and architectural ...