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

HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, archaeologist Xingtao Wei of Zhengzhou University and his colleagues analyzed residues preserved on three 8,000-year-old pottery tripods ...

The burial, dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, contained the remains of a woman who may have played a spiritual or shamanic role in her community. What stands out the most is that the woman ...

About 4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island ... dominant until about 5,000 years ago with its characteristic ceramics and passage graves, was gradually disappearing.

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island ... which had been dominant until about 5,000 years ago with its characteristic ceramics and passage graves, was gradually disappearing.

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

During the same period when the Neolithic people were affected by both ... until about 5,000 years ago with its characteristic ceramics and passage graves, was gradually disappearing.

Experts say the discovery "opens a window into the spiritual world of communities that lived approximately 10,000 years ago.” ...

Archaeologists Unearth Rare Neolithic Settlement, Sheds Light on Civilization and Agricultural Practice In one of the most exciting archaeological finds, a group of researchers has revealed an ...

The combination of environmental and health crises likely influenced the decline of the Funnel Beaker Culture, a dominant Neolithic society known for its pottery and passage graves. Alongside ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

“Neolithic societies relied on the sun for ... or the era in which the pottery-using hunter-gatherers in the north began to adopt farming and husbandry for food. “At Vasagård the deposition ...