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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Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

Doggerland was a vast landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe before rising seas submerged it. Drawing on ...

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 ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

What if the 'Market Economy' always existed? Archaeologists tried to answer this question by researching how much Bronze Age people used to spend to sustain their daily lives. Their results show that, ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

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 ...

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 ...