New excavations and geomagnetic data from the Eilsleben site in Germany reveal a massive, fortified outpost dating back to ...

Thousands of similar tunnel systems have been discovered across Europe and despite this, their purpose has been subject to decades of theory and debate.

New evidence from Neolithic mass graves in northeastern France suggests that some of Europe’s earliest violent encounters were not random acts of brutality, but carefully staged displays of power. By ...

The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

The plain stretching east of Reinstedt, a locality in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) known as Dornberg, ...

A rare roe deer skull headdress unearthed at the early Neolithic settlement of Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt is sharpening the picture of how Europe’s first farmers and local hunter-gatherers interacted, ...

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the ...

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...

New research published in the journal Science Advances challenges previous theories about prehistoric conflict by offering a detailed look into the lives and deaths of victims of what could be one of ...

The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...