Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the Mesolithic era. Microscopic ...

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Long before the Celts or the megalith builders, a handful of shadowy hunter-gatherers crossed a narrowing sea to claim a wild ...

Did the ancient land of Doggerland really get annihilated by a tsunami? Investigators dig in.

Long before ancient Britons erected the mysterious monoliths of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, the region was a hunting hot spot where Mesolithic people stalked animals, including, researchers now ...

About 10,000 years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers were hanging out in what is now south-western Sweden chewing pieces of birch tar. New analysis of that substance reveals that they may have had very ...

In a recent study by Dany Coutinho-Nogueira and his colleagues, the remains of three non-adults from Cabeço da Amoreira were analyzed. The work is published in the journal Childhood in the Past.

Four thousand years before Stonehenge was constructed, land within the World Heritage Site was covered by open woodland, with meadow-like clearings, inhabited by grazing animals and hunter-gatherers, ...

This past week, Professor Bamforth's ANTH 2200 Archaeology of Human History hosted Mesolithic Day 2023. Students experienced atlatl throwing, archaeological mapping, ceramics, soil and faunal analysis ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: There’s no face on the oldest piece of art—a small sandstone figurine of a human from the Mesolithic era—ever found in one region of modern-day ...

Somewhere around 8,000-to-10,0000 years ago, amidst the Mesolithic Era, a hunter-gatherer community resided between the UK and mainland Europe. It was called “Doggerland.” And as the last ice age ...