Neolithic Village May Have Housed Builders of Stonehenge
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New excavations near Stonehenge have uncovered what archaeologists say was probably the village of workers who erected the monoliths.
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A new discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.
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Clinging on to the Rock Neanderthals clung on to existence in southern Europe as recently as 24,000 years ago, research on a cave in Gibraltar has revealed today.â¦
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Plans to restore the ancient tradition of living and working in woodland areas are being submitted in the Highlands.
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Charred and brittle bits of fabric are providing new insights into the lives of prehistoric people, thanks to advances in chemical analysis of textiles.
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SALISBURY, England  - Whoever built Stonehenge,  the 5,000-year-old circle of megaliths that towers over green  fields in southern England and lures a million visitors a year,  couldn't have planned for the automobile.
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A village of small houses that may have sheltered the builders of the mysterious Stonehenge, or people attending festivals there, has been found by archaeologists studying the stone circle in England. Eight of the houses, with central hearths, have been excavated, and there may be as many as 25 of them, Mike Parker Pearson said Tuesday at a briefing organized by the National Geographic Society.
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Fans of The Lord of the Rings may be interested to know that a remote Indonesian island has yielded the remains of pint-size people - a surprising new human species â-hat paleontologists say lived just 18,000 years ago.
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Carvings about 70,000 years old on a snake-like rock in a cave in Botswana indicate that Stone Age people developed religious rituals far earlier than previously believed, a researcher said on Thursday.
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A now-extinct tribe could have been the first settlers of the Americas, a university researcher told a science conference in Britain.
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The village was home to the ancient British monument's builders and the site of mass rituals that may link Stonehenge with another "henge," archaeologists announced.
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A study of 7,000-year-old pig remains gives new insight into the migration of Middle Eastern people into Europe.
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...
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By Robert Brooks  The Duke of Northumberland's plan to build homes on a swathe of ancient farmland has sparked a revolt in the surrounding parish.
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Imagine the long centuries of the Stone Age, when life was, by definition, hard and there was not a tipple to be had. People in the Middle East came to find a pleasing remedy in the marvel
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.
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One of the most startling discoveries in the study of human origins -- the uncovering of a vanished species of dwarf proto-humans who inhabited a Pacific island just 18,000 years ago -- is being reported in today&#39;s issue of the journal Nature.