Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...

A circle of massive Neolithic pits near Stonehenge has been confirmed to have been created by early humans, archaeologists ...

Explore the Neolithic Age, where farming, animal domestication, pottery, tools, and permanent settlements shaped the first human civilisations.

On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved Neolithic villages in European history. Currently under excavation, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Passy-style tombs are a dramatic departure from earlier Neolithic burials not just in terms of their scale, but in what ...

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 ...

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to ...

Eight-year-old Elise found the dagger tucked in a pile of stones in the school yard. Vestland County Municipality For Elise, a student at Our Children’s School in Osøyro, Norway, a recent trip to the ...

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Rubbing grooves (karuvi thaeipu pallangal), used to shape and sharpen stone tools during the Neolithic period, ...