neolithic

The origin of the largest stones used to build Stonehenge has been a matter of considerable debate for centuries,…

The discovery of a 5,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult who had serious physical limitations suggests a form of…

Long before the two deadliest pandemics in history—the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague—an ancient strain of…

A new archaeological find in Turkey may have just answered a question about our ancestors that has persisted for…

This handsome-looking chap doesn't look a day over 40—but in fact he's 5,500 years old. This is a startlingly…

Kim Stanley Robinson is known for his meticulous worldbuilding. So when Robinson heads to neolithic Europe for his…

It's cheese. CHEESE! They found cheese (well, traces of cheese — dairy fat, to be exact) in neolithic fragments of…

Cows are quite possibly the most important domesticated animal in human history, providing vast quantities of meat,…

The Barry Troglodyte Village is a small complex of homes build undeground in the south of France. Though…

Silbury Hill is a huge artificial mound in southern England, about 130 feet high and covering five acres. Europe's…