Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented ...

The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia around 12,000 years ago. It marked a major shift in human history as societies ...

The ditches were subsequently closed. Evidence from the site indicates that Neolithic people deposited the stones en masse over a short period—possibly in a single event—around 2900 B.C ...

The woman had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of ...

The route they discovered didn’t just track migration — it revealed pockets of resistance to the Neolithic revolution, as well as signs of sea-faring derring-do. During that period, starting around 12 ...

Copper stands at the center of many of humanity’s greatest modern challenges as a critical mineral needed to power renewable ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic home is open to the air ...