Researchers investigating the prehistoric wetlands of the Duvensee Moor in Schleswig-Holstein have uncovered the skull of a wild aurochs that had once been mounted on a wooden post near what is ...

A new study of ancient pottery adds to evidence that hunter-gatherers in Europe ate more than meat and developed early ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Central Germany is among the regions where, as early as the mid-6th millennium BC, farmers displaced the Mesolithic hunter–gatherers from the fertile loess soils. Soon after this migration, however, ...

New research shows that humans left their mark on the landscape through hunting and the use of fire tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. The research paints a new picture of ...

Research at the Lüchow LA 11 site, located on the southwestern margin of the present-day Duvenseer Moor peat bog in the German district of Herzogtum Lauenburg, has provided new data that transform our ...

Preface/Préface / Marcel Otte -- Introduction -- The Lower Palaeolithic : the first humans in the Czech lands -- The Middle Palaeolithic : (not only) Neanderthal culture -- Transitory cultures and the ...

A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.