Most of us have held a seashell to our ear at some point, listening for the soft rush that sounds like the ocean. In Neolithic Catalonia, those same kinds of giant shells were shaped into instruments ...

The Neolithic burial site of Gurgy 'les Noisats' in France revealed two unprecedentedly large family trees which allowed a Franco-German team to explore the social organization of the 6,700-year-old ...

A recent archaeological excavation in Italy has unearthed fascinating evidence of ancient maritime technology dating back over 7,000 years, as reported in Phys.org. Led by Juan F. Gibaja and his team ...

Some of the world’s earliest cities were built about 7,000 years ago by Trypillia societies in what today we call Ukraine and Moldova. Archaeologists have long wondered how these densely settled ...

Using isotope geochemistry, a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has uncovered new information about the Barmaz necropolis in Valais (Switzerland): 14% of the people buried 6,000 years ago at ...

A genderless human figurine, carved 8,000 years ago, raises questions about how agriculture arrived in the South Caucasus.

THE fact that in Belgium flint was in certain districts largely worked during Neolithic times, for the manufacture of hatchets and other implements, has long been well known. The mines in the chalk ...

Neolithic people sprinkled the crystals over burials. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent ...

WHEN, where and with what species man first began the cultivation of grain are questions intimately bound up with the development of our civilisation. Fresh light has been thrown on these questions by ...

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