A mass grave in Croatia holds dozens of skeletons, and genetic information reveals new clues about how they died.

An ancient kitchen discovered in Turkey's Karahan Tepe offers a glimpse into prehistoric cooking and daily life.

Often celebrated as 'Britain's oldest road,' the Ridgeway is more than just a path; it's a living timeline etched into the chalk downlands of southern England. The Ridgeway is an 87-mile long, ancient ...

The burial sites weren’t visible to the human eye, but a suite of technological tools found subtle differences in Czech farmland.

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

But, Neil says, over the past 20 years there has been "a complete turnaround" and he has shifted away from sheep farming to ...

A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

The Xiyin village site in Yuncheng, North China's Shanxi Province Photo: VCG. Including a Neolithic pigment palette, several new discoveries at the Xiyin village site have recentl ...

Through his fantastical vignettes, Halilaj suggests curiosity about others as a way to neutralize the forces that lead to difference-based violence.

Chemical clues in ancient bones reveal how diet, especially millet consumption, helped define social identity in Bronze Age Poland.

Karnataka's State Archaeology Department is making prehistoric heritage accessible through bilingual digital content and ...

The pleasure of thinking about prehistoric people was never that of laying claim to land or heritage but of familiarity and ...