Neolithic cemeteries in China reveal matrilineal societies, challenging traditional assumptions about early human societies.

Jerusalem Post / Science Study shows pig domestication began 8,000 years ago in southern China Researchers found pigs consumed cooked foods and harbored human parasites, indicating close ...

Research by archaeologists from Chinese and US institutes suggests that pigs were already domesticated in southern China around 8,000 years ago. The team, which included researchers from Dartmouth ...

In a Nutshell The first complete ancient Egyptian genome shows this 4,800-year-old individual had mostly North African ...

Domestic pigs are not only friendlier – making them safer for humans to live with – they also have smaller heads and mouths, as well as shorter teeth, than their wild counterparts.

On a small rise less than 20 miles south of Tbilisi, Georgia, a clutch of round, mud-brick houses rises from a green, fertile river valley. The mound is called Gadachrili Gora, and the Stone Age ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a prehistoric Belgian woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley around 10,500 years ...

The forest was then further uncovered by storms in 2014 and Storm Hannah in 2019. The submerged woodland between Ynyslas and ...

A new study challenges the idea that the so-called "king" buried at Newgrange was part of a royal dynasty in Ireland.

Research by archaeologists from Chinese and US institutes suggests that pigs were already domesticated in southern China around 8,000 years ago. The team, which included researchers from Dartmouth ...

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...