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 ...

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

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

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, ...

The combination of environmental and health crises likely influenced the decline of the Funnel Beaker Culture, a dominant Neolithic society known for its pottery and passage graves. Alongside ...