Experts say the evidence uncovered potentially goes all the way back to before Britain was an island.

Exploring the 10 oldest countries in the world reveals the deep historical roots of civilizations like Iran, Egypt, China, ...

It turned out to be 9,500 years old, meaning the individual lived during the Mesolithic period, which in northern Europe began at the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago and lasted until ...

The story of our ancestors' diet is a fascinating tale of how environment and surroundings informed the food that was eaten ...

The Stone Age in Britain took place between around 15000BC to 2500BC. The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone age. Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it ...

Archaeologists say "really rare" evidence of thousands of years of life in Britain has been found in a small Cotswolds ...

Cheddar Man's genome reveals he was closely related to other Mesolithic individuals - so-called Western Hunter-Gatherers - who have been analysed from Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary. Dutch artists ...

Andreas F Borchert Two individuals at the Parknabinnia wedge tomb had recent ancestry from Mesolithic hunter-gatherers On reaching the shores of this North Atlantic landmass, the new migrants ...

Archaeologists call this period the Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age. In the 1960s Serbian archaeologists uncovered a Mesolithic fishing village nestled in steep cliffs on a bend of the Danube ...

No, not really. Previous studies of DNA from Mesolithic individuals recovered from Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary identified that they also lacked the versions of genes associated with reduced skin ...

The novelist’s creative life was woven from a childhood in northern England’s mythic landscape.