While Ireland’s first communities still lived by hunting and seasonal camps, a farming revolution spread from the Fertile Crescent through Anatolia and across Europe, until it finally crossed the sea ...

Archaeological finds over 7,000 years old, uncovered at the Huerto Raso site in northern Spain, provide new data that help us ...

History tells us who we are and how the past has shaped us. This is a commonly expressed truism, but in Ireland’s case, our ...

The Dispilio Tablet, a wooden artifact engraved with linear symbols and dated to around 5260 BC, was discovered in a ...

Project, featured on cover of Archaeology Magazine, underscoring its growing importance in reshaping understanding of early ...

Recently, Mutin and geochemist Antoine Zazzo of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris led a team that used new methods of radiocarbon dating to analyze tooth enamel from 23 Neolithic people ...

Researchers at a dig site in Spain discovered tools from some of the first farmers, possibly dating back 7,000 years. The ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked “monotocous” species, meaning it usually has one offspring per pregnancy, ...

A large archaeological excavation at Huerto Raso has uncovered important clues about the daily life of early farming communities that lived more than 7,000 years ago. The shelter, located in northern ...

A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.