Archaeological discoveries often surface as fragments, leaving researchers to reconstruct stories from scattered traces. The ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

Archaeologists excavating at Tadım Fortress and Höyük in eastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable stone seal dating back 7,500 years, pushing evidence of organized settlement in the Elazig region ...

Neolithic humans were apparently big on reuse. According to an analysis of bones from Cueva de los Marmoles, or Marmoles Cave in Southern Spain, it wasn't necessarily uncommon for living humans to ...

Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from the site of Jebel Oraf shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic, shedding new light on the subsistence and lifestyle of ancient peoples in the ...

Ahead of a construction project, archaeologists in a French municipality recently excavated the slopes of Punta Campana and discovered an expansive Neolithic site full of ancient artifacts. The site ...

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 ritual ...

When archaeologists announced in 2020 that they had traced a vast ring of prehistoric pits encircling the Neolithic site of Durrington Walls, the find instantly reshaped how researchers think about ...

Archaeologists in Cork uncovered the foundations of a 5,700-year-old Neolithic house in addition to evidence of Iron Age smelting and Bronze Age burial sites in 2020. The archaeologists excavated a ...

DENIZLI, TURKEY—Hurriyet Daily News reports that 8,600-year-old textile tools have been uncovered in western Anatolia at the ancient settlement site of Ekşi Höyük. Fulya Dedeoğlu of Ege University ...

Even in the Neolithic era, people loved bling. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 2, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...