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

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 ...

The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn't built for modern diets, which ...

Archaeologists in Eastern Ireland have unearthed the largest prehistoric settlement ever found in the country, Archaeology ...

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

Archaeology has a new, unlikely interface: conversation. Instead of peering at potsherds in glass cases, players can now walk ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

Bottomless stone bowl, plate, and batons, and small bowl containing animal figurines with heads in limestone rings (left) and stone animal figurines (right) Since the first stone structures were ...

Deep in the Swedish peat bog, archaeologists have recovered something remarkable: the 5,000-year-old remains of a faithful ...

In a recent study published in Antiquity, Dr. Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues identified more than 600 suspected house ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the largest prehistoric village in Britain and Ireland, revealing over 600 ancient homes in ...

The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...