The woman had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of ...

The earliest farmers in France knew a thing or two about scouting a location for a room with a view. The evidence: a recent discovery of a home from one of France’s first Neolithic settlements, which ...

"The ditches were subsequently closed.” Speaking with Salon, Iversen brought the Neolithic rituals to life by describing the elaborate ceremonies that would have been practiced by the ancient ...

One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney. The builders of the chambered cairn known as Maes Howe ...

"Many a seeker can spend his whole life wandering around and not find something equally valuable." A metal detectorist combing a forest in eastern Poland just stumbled upon a rare, 6,000-year-old ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

6200–3300 BCE. Credit: Rebecca Bristow et al. The team suggests that figurines, commonly associated with rituals and the integration of densely populated communities, lost significance as Neolithic ...