Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

Skara Brae was inhabited before the Egyptian Pyramids were built and had flourished for centuries before construction began at Stonehenge. The structures of this village survive in impressive ...

The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...

In 2020, archaeologists in Ireland first announced a startling find at Newgrange, a giant Neolithic burial chamber 30 miles ...

These newly discovered figurines dating back to 7500 B.C. are believed to be linked to the burial practices of an ancient ...

New research has cast doubt over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more ...

Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland 5500 years ago.

U nlike ancient Egypt, Hawai’i, or the Inca Empire, Neolithic Ireland probably wasn’t governed by a dynasty of demi-gods who ...

A rare Stone Age figurine discovered near the Baltic Sea has been confirmed as one of the most significant Neolithic finds in ...

Dating back to the Neolithic era, the so-called Venus of Kolobrzeg is the first artifact of its kind unearthed in the ...