An archaeological study reveals how ancient hunter-gatherer groups lived—and survived—more than a thousand years ago in the ...

Learn how DNA analysis of ancient graves uncovered surprising details about Stone Age family life.

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...

Within a few centuries, the genetic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse region, including the wetlands, was completely reshaped. Our ...

The invention of cities marked one of the most profound shifts in human history. Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic Revolution saw hunter-gatherers begin domesticating plants and animals, leading ...

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known ...

The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave peoples weren’t as illiterate as portrayed in popular media.

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many ...

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Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric ...