A Stone Age mass grave has given up some of its secrets thanks to DNA. A team of French archaeologists and paleo-geneticists ...

Why do they think it’s a graveyard? First, they compared the pits to hundreds of graves at 14 Stone Age burial sites. Similarities, such as the shape, rounded edges, the use of red ochre ...

Researchers believe the site was used as a ritual gathering place during the Neolithic period thousands of years ago.

Two previously unknown Neolithic stone circles have been found in England, and they may have been part of a "sacred arc," an ...

Researchers confirmed that Lion Cavern in Eswatini is the world's oldest ochre mine, dating back 48,000 years. Using ...

Stone Age artefacts were also found, with the oldest likely being as much as 7,000 years old. Additionally, possible traces ...

Were they ritual objects used in sacred ceremonies or as grave goods? Did the ancients ... an iron-rich pigment that Stone Age cultures often used in ceremonies. The scratches visible on the ...

The Middle Stone Age grave - of a three-year-old child - was found in a cave in Kenya. In a paper in the journal Nature, the researchers who studied the fragile, ancient remains described how its ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the ... they sat was surrounded by stone to protect them from being bumped and broken. A Neolithic grave at Pentre Ifan, Wales.