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New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

The alignment of the pits discovered suggests a ritual purpose. Museum of London Archaeology Archaeologists in Bedfordshire, England, have found a cluster of 25 monumental pits that date to the ...

Analysis of the skeletal remains of a Mesolithic man found in a cave on a Croatian island has revealed microscopic fish and plant remains in the dental plaque of a tooth -- a first-time discovery for ...

Long before ancient Britons erected the mysterious monoliths of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, the region was a hunting hot spot where Mesolithic people stalked animals, including, researchers now ...

A 7,000-year-old man from the Mesolithic Period had blue eyes and dark skin. (Pelopanton/CSIC) Dark skin. Blue eyes. Beard. Thin and borderline lactose-intolerant. That's what scientists say man may ...

In an unassuming farm field in Yorkshire, peat preserves secrets. Tens of thousands of fragments of wood, bone, antler, and stone pack into the mud beneath prim grass. Until 1948, they lay undisturbed ...

Piece of ochre believed to be an early example of a crayon (all photos courtesy Paul Shields/University of York) Archaeologists at the University of York say they may have found one of the earliest ...

Modern Crayola fans are part of a surprising lineage. Archaeologists discover Mesolithic people probably liked to draw with crayons, too. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been linked to territoriality in a rapidly-changing climate, according to a study published July ...

Dušan Borić, Charles A. I. French, Sofija Stefanović, Vesna Dimitrijević, Emanuela Cristiani, Maria Gurova, Dragana Antonović, Ethel Allué and Dragana Filipović Recent excavations (2006–2009) at the ...