The Late Neolithic pottery is all handmade, and there is some evidence for coil construction. Although there are some ...

The woman had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of ...

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 ...

A recent study published in the journal ‘Atiqot has revealed the discovery of an exceptional tomb at the Motza archaeological ...

New research has revealed bone powder was a crucial substance as ancient China's Peiligang culture emerged from a ...

Archaeologists believe fingerprints left on a piece of Neolithic pottery belonged to two young men. A single print was first discovered in April on the fragment of a clay vessel unearthed at ...

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 ...

Jericho is one of the cities with the oldest defensive walls in the world (Photo courtesy of ACOR) AMMAN — The majority of known Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlements are found in the southern Levant, ...

"Similarly, we see changes in Neolithic architecture and burial methods ... spread came not only burial traditions but also tools, pottery, and jewellery intended to accompany the dead into ...