A 7,000-year-old grave site in present-day Oman indicates that the region’s Neolithic communities sometimes turned to an ...

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 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 ...

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

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

The Cerny people were, however, clearly capable of building large structures. Along the Seine and Yonne Rivers, and more recently at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne on the Caen Plain in Normandy, ...

Spanish archaeologists have revived the sound of 6,000-year-old Neolithic shell horns, capable of producing powerful notes ...

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The Cerny people were, however, clearly capable of building large structures. Along the Seine and Yonne Rivers, and more recently at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne on the Caen Plain in Normandy, ...