A research team has made exceptional discoveries on prehistoric archery from the early Neolithic period, 7,000 years ago. The well organic preservation of the remains of the Cave of Los Murcielagos in ...

Scattered across the European continent are magnificent historic sites deemed culturally significant — from Rome's Colosseum to the Acropolis of Athens, or even this world-famous villa (and UNESCO ...

Ritualized human sacrifice was common across Europe during the Stone Age, according to a team of researchers who recently tried to estimate the number of sacrifice victims on the continent. They ...

The analysis of fat traces in over one hundred pottery vessels reveals deep changes in food consumption and preparation by communities living in central Germany between the Early Neolithic and the ...

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Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago. Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ...

The 5,000-year-old cellar may have been part of a complex used for trading and forming alliances in prehistoric Denmark. Reading time 2 minutes It may seem hard to relate to Neolithic humans, who ...

A reconstruction of the occurrence of plague in a large family tree from Neolithic Sweden indicates that 12 of 38 family members were infected in three separate waves — a potential explanation for a ...

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Three Neolithic arrows recovered from the Cave of Los Murciélagos in Albuñol: reed and wood (above) and details of tied sinew fibres, feathers and birch bark pitch ...

The Neolithic age – when agriculture and animal farming were adopted – has become one of the most widely studied periods of social and economic transition in recent years. It was a period that drove ...