We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated art. From Ireland to ...

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In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 ...

Over 500 ancient stone monuments dot the rolling hills of southwestern Spain. La Torre-La Janera stretches across 220 acres in Huelva province. Prehistoric humans built this sacred landscape starting ...

Archaeologists identified a “small but significant” number of non-binary prehistoric burials, showing “complex” gender expression, a study said. Photo from Chelms Varthoumlien via Unsplash Digging ...

ATU researchers discovered the 5,500-year-old wildcat in a cave in Clare, marking a breakthrough in understanding Ireland’s ...

Archaeologists excavate near the cave at the Sima del Elefante site, near Burgos in northern Spain, where the fossilized skull fragments were found. - Maria D. Guillén/IPHES-CERCA The story of human ...

These prehistoric European sites are a fascinating window onto the history of humanity. By visiting them, you can discover more about early civilisations who did their bit in shaping the modern world.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The research focused on two key periods: GI-1d-a (14,000-12,500), a climate improvement period during the late Palaeolithic, and the recent Dryas event (GS-1), a brief period of climate cooling that ...

Eating human brains might seem relegated to zombie flicks, but a new study found that European warriors did just that 18,000 years ago, per “noodle”-slurping study in the journal Scientific Reports.

[Vienna, August 26 2024] – Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of human population was far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by sharp declines. The reasons ...