Isotope analysis of a molar from a cow’s jawbone found buried at the monument provides details of the life story of the ...

Excavations led by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) have revealed a vast network of underground tunnels beneath ...

Archaeologists say they have found evidence that a site in a village near St Andrews has been used by people for about 10,000 ...

Neolithic Europe was no stranger to collective violence of many forms, such as the odd execution and massacres of small ...

The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from ...

The Neolithic period, considered to be the last part of the Stone Age, may have been a brutal time to be alive for many ...

The lead isotopes revealed spikes in late winter and spring, pointing to a lead source older than the lead in the rest of the ...

While evidence of cannibalism in the Iberian Peninsula dates back approximately one million years, direct evidence the processing of human bodies is rare. New research, however, analyzing the bones of ...

However, researchers have added new layers to the complicated and overlapping history. According to a study published on ...

Some 5,700 years ago, a Neolithic farming community in what is now Spain killed and ate members of a neighboring group, ...

Thousands of years ago in the Rhine River Valley of northern France, a battle between groups led to mutilated bodies and gruesome trophies. /iStock Photo The winners of major battles throughout ...

Archaeologists created 3D reconstructions of the women's faces based on an analysis of their teeth and bones. Found in the Czech Republic, the siblings "did not have an easy life," the new research su ...