The Neolithic period, considered to be the last part of the Stone Age, may have been a brutal time to be alive for many people in Europe. Archaeological studies have found evidence of massacres ...

Archaeologists have revealed a "unique" prehistoric burial featuring the remains of a child whose skeleton displays evidence of unusual marks on its bones. The child's remains were discovered at an ...

Archaeologists in France have excavated a Neolithic site containing 63 burials and hundreds of structures and artifacts from a human occupation spanning roughly 4,000 years. The site in ...

In the 1980s, archaeologists in France discovered a sprawling site filled with ancient human remains during highway construction. Now archaeologists have finally explored and excavated the huge ...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of three women in a Neolithic tomb in France, with the positioning of two of the bodies suggesting they may have been ritualistically murdered by asphyxia or ...

A Neolithic settlement from thousands of years ago was discovered in the south of France. Jean-Baptiste Jamin National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Once the landscape of countless ...

Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

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Buried at a critical point in human history, the remains of a woman and various wild animals may suggest she played an important—and unexpected—spiritual role. The female 'shaman' was buried in the ...