They say pollen, plant remains, insects and microscopic organisms were preserved underneath peat.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved ...

The British and Irish countryside is often celebrated for its wealth of unique places of heritage, significance and interest. But not many people know that this heritage includes thousands of ancient ...

The burial sites weren’t visible to the human eye, but a suite of technological tools found subtle differences in Czech ...

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The Neolithic Revolution involved the advent of agriculture, which finally allowed people to settle down in ever-larger groups and focus on things other than procuring calories—things like developing ...

A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC. The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may ...

Neolithic people seem to have understood sophisticated concepts in science, such as physics and geology, using this knowledge to construct a megalithic monument in southern Spain. Called the Menga ...

The British Isles have been populated by human beings for hundreds of thousands of years, but it was the introduction of farming around 7,000 years ago that began a process of radical change. Human ...

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 ...