Archaeologists at the Lancashire have uncovered new details about the identity of an 11,000-year-old individual known as the ...
The oldest human remains ever found in Northern Britain have been identified as a young female three years after being discovered in a Cumbrian cave. Excavated at Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria's ...
Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...
Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have produced a reconstruction of her face using ancient DNA. A team led by scientists ...
New research shows that humans left their mark on the landscape through hunting and the use of fire tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. The research paints a new picture of ...
The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
Central Germany is among the regions where, as early as the mid-6th millennium BC, farmers displaced the Mesolithic hunter–gatherers from the fertile loess soils. Soon after this migration, however, ...
A rare roe deer skull headdress unearthed at the early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt is sharpening the picture of how Europe’s first farmers and local hunter-gatherers interacted, ...
DNA testing has shed light on some of the oldest human remains ever found in Northern Britain.