Ancient DNA from a Neolithic village in China reveals a rare matrilineal society in which people were buried alongside their ...

The village was inhabited for six centuries ... for archaeologists to learn more about everyday life in Scotland during the Neolithic era. They started a dig, but it was abandoned in 1868, and ...

Skara Brae is a Neolithic village located on the Bay of Skaill, on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney Islands in Scotland. Inhabited between 3180 BCE and 2500 BCE, it flourished before the ...

According to the East Anglian Daily Times, the team recently unearthed hundreds of earthen pits, a discovery which has ...

It is the best preserved Neolithic village in northern Europe ... Such a tightly knit and communal village life was unusual in these early farming communities, individual farmsteads being ...

New research from Peking University has uncovered evidence of an ancient matrilineal society in China, where a Neolithic farming village organized family life through the mother’s lineage for over ten ...

What archaeologists discovered through excavations begun in earnest during the 1920s was Europe’s best-preserved Neolithic village ... a rich picture of daily life. Milk and shellfish would ...

The Banpo Site is a typical Neolithic matriarchal community belonging ... In addition, artwork and adornments on display reflect the social life, culture, art and inventions of the period.

Construction work on the Old Petty Championship Golf Course at Cabot Highlands near Inverness uncovered at least 25 Neolithic wooden buildings, flint tools, a prehistoric post circle and other ...

During the campaign, researchers documented the seasonal presence and possible later occupation of Neolithic groups—nomadic societies transitioning to a stationary, agricultural way of life ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect ...