The black and white markings on its face make the Badger a very distinctive and unmistakable wild animal that everybody knows ...

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

The team, which included researchers from Dartmouth College and the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, analysed two early Neolithic sites in the province’s Yangtze ...

Unlike ancient Egypt, Hawai’i, or the Inca Empire, Neolithic Ireland probably wasn’t governed by a dynasty of demi-gods who ...

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

A rare Stone Age figurine discovered near the Baltic Sea has been confirmed as one of the most significant Neolithic finds in ...

The flute unearthed from an important Neolithic settlement in Iran shows how early humans progressed from their primitive ...

Nestled within the hills around the lake was the renowned Mabu Tsho site that was inscribed as one of the top 10 national ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...

Ditch steel, glass, and reinforced concrete 6,000 years ago, Neolithic engineers in southern Spain were already accomplishing ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...