A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from ...

The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered 6,500-year-old gold artefacts in an ancient grave, revealing evidence of early ...

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Long before the North Sea existed, a vast landscape of rivers, forests, and plains connected Britain to continental Europe. Drawing on archaeology, geology, and climate science, this documentary ...

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Eating human brains might seem relegated to zombie flicks, but a new study found that European warriors did just that 18,000 years ago, per “noodle”-slurping study in the journal Scientific Reports.

The research focused on two key periods: GI-1d-a (14,000-12,500), a climate improvement period during the late Palaeolithic, and the recent Dryas event (GS-1), a brief period of climate cooling that ...

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about the roles of women and children in Stone Age societies. Analysis of remains ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Humans first made dogs their best friends in prehistoric Europe, where groups of hunter-gathers learnt to tame dangerous wolves into companions between 19,000 and 32,000 years ago, ...

New evidence from Neolithic mass graves in northeastern France suggests that some of Europe’s earliest violent encounters were not random acts of brutality, but carefully staged displays of power. By ...