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 ...

Karahantepe, Turkey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...