HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, archaeologist Xingtao Wei of Zhengzhou University and his colleagues analyzed residues preserved on three 8,000-year-old pottery tripods ...

New evidence suggests that a volcanic eruption around 2,900 BCE had devastating impacts on Neolithic societies ... found in ditches alongside broken pottery, animal bones, and flint tools and ...

The saddle quern, a hand tool used for grinding grain, lay hidden beneath layers of Early Neolithic pottery shards. This site, dating back to 3600–3200 BC, predates Skara Brae and suggests even ...

Cast far to Britain's north, the discovery dates back a staggering 5,000 years and offers vital clues about the island's ancient people.

The Neolithic Flint Mines project was established in order to fully record and widely disseminate the results of the early 20th century investigations for the first time. Harrow Hill: a Neolithic ...

Samples of Majiayao pottery from Majiayao phase. Credit: Gruschke / CC BY-SA 3.0 Archaeologists in China have discovered the largest known settlement of the ancient Majiayao culture in Gansu Province ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...

For Neolithic communities, reliant on agriculture, this sudden climate shift would have been catastrophic. The stones found at the Vasagård site in Bornholm, Denmark are an archaeological marvel—the ...

Archaeologists unearth “extremely rare” early Neolithic village on the French Riviera, marking the human transition from a nomadic existence to an agricultural society.

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day. The discovery of items which are thousands of years old, including pottery and a Neolithic house in Derry, have been revealed in a ...