Discover more about Newgrange and the people who were buried there. And what those people can tell us about the elites of ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.

Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

A rare Stone Age figurine discovered near the Baltic Sea has been confirmed as one of the most significant Neolithic finds in ...

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

Dr Eline Schotsmans has co-authored major new findings showing the “world’s first city” may have venerated women as the ...