The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia. To better understand their dynamics of interaction, a team from the ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...

Stonehenge at sunset. Construction of the iconic stone circle began around 3000 B.C.E. and continued in several phases. Captain Skyhigh via Getty Images About 5,000 years ago, Neolithic inhabitants of ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...