Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ancient burial with three skeletons in it. The murder of sacrificial victims by "incaprettamento" — tying their neck to their ...

A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Early humans experienced a rapid population collapse across large parts of Europe five thousand years ago, the ...

Understanding the Western Europeans' social structure and kinships from the Neolithic era was a previous challenge, but researchers have now been given a clear indication that understood the early ...

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 ...

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the ...

The Neolithic lifestyle, based on farming instead of hunting and gathering, emerged in the Near East around 12,000 years ago and contributed profoundly to the modern way of life. The ability to ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

Archaeology has a new, unlikely interface: conversation. Instead of peering at potsherds in glass cases, players can now walk through a digital Neolithic village in Stone Age Europe and talk directly ...

The Valletta Convention requires developers to fund archaeological investigations, shifting costs away from taxpayers while ...