A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

This small stone axehead is made from volcanic tuff and dates from the neolithic period. It would have been used, with an attached handle, for tasks such as chopping wood. The axehead was ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

Photo: Courtesy of Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology. The Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology on Wednesday ...

Archaeological evidence along its length, including numerous burial mounds, hill forts, and settlements, attests to its continuous use from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages through to the Iron Age ...

These are monumental structures resembling ditches or trenches found in Great Britain and Ireland that date to the Neolithic period (around 4100-2500 B.C.).

A new study shows how a 5,600-year-old monument in what’s now Spain was erected. Each stone of the Menga Dolmen is many times bigger than Stonehenge’s megaliths.

14 different human remains found in 5,000-year-old Scottish tomb from the Neolithic period. Anthony Robledo. USA TODAY. More than a dozen human remains were found inside a 5,000-year-old tomb in ...

We argue that rather than this being evidence for an elite class in Neolithic Ireland, something else is responsible for this genetic patterning. Crucially, these individuals all postdate 3600BC.

In Britain the genetic data was obtained from 51 Neolithic individuals (who died between 4000 and 2500 BC) and 104 Copper Age and Bronze Age people (who died between 2500 BC and 1000 BC).