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

The archaeologists discovered the figurine in the Damjili Cave, which was first explored by archaeologists in 1953. Layers ...

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

A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

Alepotrypa Burial Cave in Greece, used 8,000 years ago and later reused by Mycenaeans, contains ancient historical treasures ...

Neolithic people built grave mounds to bury their dead. People stored the bones of the dead in large graves known as long barrows. These graves were built from stone and covered with a mound of earth.

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for ... not for a ruling dynasty. In Ireland's Neolithic period, which lasted from about 3900 to 2500 B.C., people ...

Shargan Wangdue, deputy head of the Xizang regional institute of cultural relics protection, said that through the excavation ...

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 ...