The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Archaeological studies of a landscape in eastern Ireland have turned up the greatest number yet of ancient structures that remain rare in that country, and may cast light on the beliefs and burial ...

Bryn Celli Ddu is one of Wales’ most important Neolithic monuments. Excavations reveal its construction phases, burial use, and later alterations, shedding light on ritual activity and monument ...

DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...

Archaeologists at Karahantepe, one of the world’s oldest Neolithic sites, have uncovered the earliest known three-dimensional mythological depiction, hailed as the discovery of the century. Dating ...

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 ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...

A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC. The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may ...

Museums have spent decades trying to make the distant past feel alive. Audiovisual shows, touch screens and digital displays ...