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 ...

An archaeological dig of a quarry in Lincolnshire has uncovered evidence of settlements and agriculture spanning 6,000 years. Excavations of the West Deeping quarry revealed a Roman settlement as well ...

The sunken space may represent a one-of-a-kind structure with massive implications for how people stored food at the time.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a stone-paved cellar dating back to the Stone Age on the Danish island of Falster, ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncover a 6,000-year-old Neolithic longhouse, revealing insights into the Linear Pottery culture and ...

Early H. sapiens could finally stay in one place because they cultivated their own food through agriculture and domesticating animals. The Neolithic period, which is also called the New Stone Age, is ...

The site, known as Nygårdsvej 3, was discovered during construction activities related to the electrification of a railway ...