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 ...

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Remains of a cow shed light on how Stonehenge may have been erected. Researchers analyzed a Neolithic cow's molar, and the chemical signatures indicate that it could have been involved in the ...

Archaeological research found that the majority of Neolithic Irish settlers were dairy farmers. The research, conducted by the University of York's Archaeological Department, surprisingly found that ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered a 6,000-year-old Neolithic home and evidence of Bronze Age cremations while working along the route of a new motorway in Cork. The team, which consists of ...

The transition to agriculture in Europe involved the coexistence of hunter-gatherers and early farmers migrating from Anatolia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. To ...

New research answers a long-debated question among anthropologists, archaeologists and geneticists: when farmers first arrived in Europe, how did they interact with existing hunter-gatherer groups?

Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the UK, according to research announced at the British Science ...

The chance discovery of neolithic tools under a protected rock formation in Hyderabad is leading to calls for protection of the site. Members of the Kotha Telangana Charitra Brundam made the discovery ...

For Dr. Robert Mason, an archaeologist with the Royal Ontario Museum, it all began with a walk last summer. Mason conducts work at the Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi monastery, out in the Syrian Desert.