The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

Two groundbreaking studies challenge the traditional timeline of cat domestication, highlighting the pivotal influence of ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

The now-sumberged Neolithic site of Soline, which sits in the Meditterranean Sea's northernmost arm - the Adriatic, dates back to around 4,900 BC. The road uncovered was measured to be around 13 ...

Although no absolute dates have been obtained for any of the clusters, they probably span the entire range of the Late Neolithic period (ca. 6,900-5,000 BCE), although there is abroad and dispersed ...

The butchered bones of great bustards (Otis tarda) that were recently discovered in one of the African continent’s oldest cemeteries hint that these avians were culturally significant at the time.

An earlier one brought wildcats from Northwest Africa to Sardinia by the 2nd century ... the considerations that cats were ubiquitous in Neolithic settlements and underscore how previous reliance ...

Elliott & Thompson has acquired The Seekers: Unearthing the Lost Neolithic People of Britain and Ireland by archaeologist, lecturer and author Jim Leary. Publishing director Sarah Rigby secured ...

A centuries-old belief that the 3,500-year-old tombs of Brú na Bóinne were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society has been shattered by research showing a much wider selection of ...