The Porsmose man from the Neolithic period, killed by two arrows with bone tips. New evidence suggests it was not such a peaceful transition of power from the hunter-gatherers to the first farmers.

Over the years, a variety of mysterious engraved stone plaques have been unearthed in Denmark. The decorative artifacts date ...

Other neolithic farms on Orkney - at the sites of Skara Brae and the Braes of Ha’Breck dating to between 3300-2400 BC - also had chemical traces of ancient smelly stuff being used to help grow food.

Neolithic passage grave at Falbygden, southern Sweden. Frederik Seersholm, Author provided. The population of farmers in southern Scandinavia expanded very rapidly, reaching a peak around 5,600 ...

New archaeological research has found that the majority of Neolithic Irish settlers were dairy farmers. The research, conducted by the University of York's Archaeological Department, surprisingly ...

Pioneering early farmers who arrived on the Baltic coast 6,000 years ago may have taken up fishing after observing indigenous hunter-gatherer communities, a major new study has found.

Neolithic Farmers May Have Buried These Mysterious Stones to Bring Back the Sun After a Volcanic Eruption Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000 ...