The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...

Two of Britain's leading archaeologists, Professor Timothy Darvill and Professor Geoff Wainwright, believe Stonehenge attracted healers and medicine men. The question is, what medicinal offerings were ...

New excavations and geomagnetic data from the Eilsleben site in Germany reveal a massive, fortified outpost dating back to ...

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Archaeological research found that the majority of Neolithic Irish settlers were dairy farmers. The research, conducted by the University of York's Archaeological Department, surprisingly found that ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered a 6,000-year-old Neolithic home and evidence of Bronze Age cremations while working along the route of a new motorway in Cork. The team, which consists of ...

New research answers a long-debated question among anthropologists, archaeologists and geneticists: when farmers first arrived in Europe, how did they interact with existing hunter-gatherer groups?

For Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, it all began with a walk last summer. Mason conducts work at the Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery, out in the Syrian Desert.

One of the most remarkable discoveries in modern archaeology: in 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, revealing the Neolithic ...

The chance discovery of neolithic tools under a protected rock formation in Hyderabad is leading to calls for protection of the site. Members of the Kotha Telangana Charitra Brundam made the discovery ...