Whether intentional or not, the way mega-settlements in southeastern Europe from 6,000 years ago were laid out would have cut ...

China on Friday unveiled three important archaeological discoveries of ruins from both the prehistoric age and the Xia ...

Did the first agricultural societies in Europe live nomadically, or were they (seasonally) sedentary? How did sedentarism ...

Why abandon and dense and robust town? For early civilization the answer might lie in city planning — and disease.

Whether the people of Nebelivka knew it or not, this lower-density, clustered layout could have helped prevent any disease ...

Archaeologists uncover a 5,000-year-old stone-paved cellar on the Danish island of Falster, shedding light on early farming ...

A major archaeological discovery has been made at West Deeping quarry in Lincolnshire. Evidence of human settlements and ...

A recent study has revealed that the hypogeum cemetery of La Beleña, located in the province of Córdoba (southern Spain), is ...

Excavations at Çatalhöyük show how closely people lived before the settlement collapsed.

An archaeological dig of a quarry in Lincolnshire has uncovered evidence of settlements and agriculture spanning 6,000 years.