Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the Mesolithic era. Microscopic ...

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About 10,000 years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers were hanging out in what is now south-western Sweden chewing pieces of birch tar. New analysis of that substance reveals that they may have had very ...

Long before ancient Britons erected the mysterious monoliths of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, the region was a hunting hot spot where Mesolithic people stalked animals, including, researchers now ...

Led by a researcher from the University of Warwick, a new expedition is set to delve into Europe’s pivotal Mesolithic Stonge Age site, Bouldnor Cliff. The expedition is a race against time to the ...

The research team analysed pollen, fungal spores and traces of DNA preserved in ancient sediment (sedaDNA), combined with optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and radiocarbon dating to produce an ...

This past week, Professor Bamforth's ANTH 2200 Archaeology of Human History hosted Mesolithic Day 2023. Students experienced atlatl throwing, archaeological mapping, ceramics, soil and faunal analysis ...

Long before the Celts or the megalith builders, a handful of shadowy hunter-gatherers crossed a narrowing sea to claim a wild ...

Experts have astounded everyone by bringing back a face from the ancient past. In this stunning recreation, scientists have developed the face of possibly a 10,500-year-old woman from present-day ...

Four thousand years before Stonehenge was constructed, land within the World Heritage Site was covered by open woodland, with meadow-like clearings, inhabited by grazing animals and hunter-gatherers, ...