A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.

This documentary presents a chronological overview of the Mesolithic period. As ice retreated, humans adapted to forests, rivers, and coastal environments. Toolmaking became more specialized, and ...

Based on the style and themes, the paintings are believed to belong to the Mesolithic period, dating back nearly 10,000 to ...

The alignment of the pits discovered suggests a ritual purpose. Museum of London Archaeology Archaeologists in Bedfordshire, England, have found a cluster of 25 monumental pits that date to the ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Hyderabad: A research scholar from Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) discovered a rock art site of significant ...

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Working in a cave in Liguria, Italy, an international team of researchers uncovered the oldest documented burial of an infant girl in the European archaeological record. The richly decorated ...

Archeologists from Lund University in Sweden have mapped out a stone age site from 9,000 years ago. This one, however, is located underwater in Hanö Bay in the Baltic Sea. The rest of this article is ...

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 ...

For many people seaweed holds a reputation as a superfood, heralded for its health benefits and sustainability, but it appears our European ancestors were ahead of the game and were consuming the ...

Ten thousand years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave with a rich selection of their treasured beads and pendants, showing that even the youngest females were ...