A 7,000-year-old grave site in present-day Oman indicates that the region’s Neolithic communities sometimes turned to an ...

Archaeologists excavating at Tadım Fortress and Höyük in eastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable stone seal dating back 7,500 years, pushing evidence of organized settlement in the Elazig region ...

Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The ...

A newly studied megalithic tomb in Oman reveals centuries-long Neolithic burial practices, regional mobility, and early ...

A small carved stone, pulled from the soil of eastern Türkiye, is forcing archaeologists to rethink how sophisticated some of ...

A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC. The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may ...

Beyond the north coast of Scotland lie the Orkney Islands, an archipelago of more than 70 islands scattered across the North Sea like breadcrumbs. Long winters, raking winds, and a treeless landscape ...

Even in the Neolithic era, people loved bling. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 2, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

On the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, peat—that spongy stuff found in bogs and made of partly decomposed vegetation and organic matter—has long been a vital resource for heating, cooking, ...

DNA reveals burials inside one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments, showing Spain’s Menga dolmen stayed sacred for ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.