A group of 6,000-year-old seashells has emerged as the loudest playable sound-producing instruments yet confirmed from ...

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have used ancient DNA to reveal that hunter-gatherers in one part of Europe ...

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the ...

These prehistoric European sites are a fascinating window onto the history of humanity. By visiting them, you can discover more about early civilisations who did their bit in shaping the modern world.

We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated art. From Ireland to ...

The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...

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Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered 6,500-year-old gold artefacts in an ancient grave, revealing evidence of early ...