(CN) — Cannibalism, whether to stave off death by starvation or within the confines of ritual ceremony, is regarded as one of the most extreme human practices. And there are still many questions as to ...

The first European agriculturalists, some 7,000 years ago, may have met a bloody end. Is the suggestion that this was a conflict with other Linear Pottery culture people? Or could it have been a ...

Archaeologists have long suggested that the placement of human remains in tombs during the Stone Age of northwestern Europe reflects one of the ways in which kinship was created and negotiated.

Most of us have held a seashell to our ear at some point, listening for the soft rush that sounds like the ocean. In Neolithic Catalonia, those same kinds of giant shells were shaped into instruments ...