Did ancient people practice equality? While stereotypes may suggest otherwise, the remains of one Neolithic society reveal evidence that both men and women, as well as locals and foreigners, were all ...

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

Circles buried for millennia have been uncovered in the small town of Rechnitz, located in Burgenland, the country’s least populated state. Archaeologists have revealed a rare collection of Neolithic ...

A new study uses a wide range of methods to date the heavily eroded reliefs, and connecting them to a period in which a green Arabia was home to monument-building pastoralists. The monumental reliefs ...

AMMAN — In recent decades, inscriptions and Arabian rock art has attracted considerable scholarly interest. Rock engravings are common in the semi-arid areas of the Arabian Peninsula and are often ...

When it comes to studying Neolithic Britain (4,000-2,500 B.C.), a bit of archaeological mystery is to be expected. Since Neolithic farmers existed long before written language made its way to the ...

This study reports new genome-wide data for 101 prehistoric individuals from 12 archaeological sites in today's France and Germany, dating from 7000-3000 BCE, and documents levels of admixture between ...

When people in New Guinea started tending crops like yam and fruits around 8,000 years ago, they transformed nearly everything about life on the island. By around 5,000 years ago, people had begun ...

AMMAN — The second site excavated by the Polish Jagiellonian University (JU) team in 2021 was located in a desert area in the vicinity of Huseiniya, near the Desert Highway. It lies about 500 metres ...

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The 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey is often called the “zero point of history”, said The Archaeologist. But recent excavations at the nearby Mendik Tepe site suggest it dates back even ...