Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic people at Vasagård, on the Danish island Bornholm, to sacrifice unique “sun stones”
An ancient Neanderthal lineage from Grotte Mandrin remained isolated from other populations for over 50,000 years—up until the species extinction
According to a new study, the plague may have been a contributing factor to the population collapse in the end of the Neolithic, known as the Neolithic decline, in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
What we do know is that the Hitra man lived in a very turbulent period. Up to that point, most people lived as hunter-gatherers
14,500 to 10,500 years ago, prehistoric peoples harvesting vegetation from the Shubayqa wetlands of eastern Jordan created a habitat for birds
St Helena’s “liberated” Africans came from West Central Africa between northern Angola and Gabon, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
Ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick coming from the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, in the ancient city of Kalhu, reveals a time capsule of plant life
The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century
Written sources document that kissing was practiced by the peoples of ancient Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago
Research into grape pips found from the excavated Byzantine monastery of Avdat (Oboda), in the Negev Highlands (Israel), hints at the origins of the Gaza wine