As well as defining and securing fields, stones walls also became a lasting habitat for animals and birds. While a stoat and a wren make poor bedfellows, strangely, the favourite resting place of both ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

Excavation over 500,000 m² uncovered 25+ prehistoric buildings, a ritual circle, and medieval grain kilns. Artefacts will be dated and sent to museums later this year.

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- From a 60,000-year-old Paleolithic settlement to a third-century Buddhist temple along the ancient Silk Road, China on Thursday unveiled its top 10 archaeological ...

It was assumed for a long time that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. However, a new DNA analysis of 55 ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

Simon at the Cladich Chambered Cairn. On Simon’s first visit to Cladich, he surveyed and scanned the cairn as planned. His ...

From the moment we put down the bows and the spears and made the first hoes and rakes and plows and wrote down the first ...

Archaeologists have long debated who was buried in these megalithic monuments and whether the tombs served other purposes, such as rituals, ceremonies, or displays. The prevailing view was that these ...

Nestled in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Skara Brae is a prehistoric village that has intrigued archaeologists and ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.