In Britain, the Mesolithic period (10BC to 4000BC) was the last time people lived exclusively as hunter-fisher-gatherers. The recent discovery and excavation of a series of large Mesolithic pits at ...

Researchers at the Threecastles Solar Farm near Blessington have discovered what is believed to be the oldest archaeological ...

Divers in Lake Arendsee, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, have recovered worked wood that dates to roughly 10,500 years ...

As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental data generated by scientists from the Senckenberg Center ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The discovery of 25 large pits in Bedfordshire, England, created around 8,000 years ago, has surprised and excited ...

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 often ...

Many have come to see Doggerland as the key to understanding the Mesolithic in northern Europe, and the Mesolithic, in turn, as a period that holds lessons for us—living as we are through another ...

Archaeologists in Bedfordshire, England, have found a cluster of 25 monumental pits that date to the Mesolithic era, “a time with few clues to suggest what life was like in Britain,” according to a ...

GADAG : Mesolithic Age paintings, recently discovered in the rocky region of Neelagund village near Gadag, is all set to receive protected monument status soon. Historians and history buffs are now ...

Ten thousand years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave with a rich selection of their treasured beads and pendants, showing that even the youngest females were ...