Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who writes articles on space, ancient humans, animals, and sustainability, and manages the Planet Earth column of the print issue. View Full ...

On the glitzy French Riviera, French archaeologists have made an unparalleled discovery: one of the first and best-preserved Neolithic villages in European history. Currently under excavation, this ...

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 47-59 (13 pages) This paper gives an overview of domesticated and wild plants used during the second half of the fourth ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old prehistoric village beneath the historic city of Dehdasht, shedding new light ...

The Passy-style tombs are a dramatic departure from earlier Neolithic burials not just in terms of their scale, but in what ...

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Supplementary Studies, No. 23, Preliminary Reports of ASOR-Sponsored Excavations 1981-83 (1985), pp. 35-52 (18 pages) ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect the ...

A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust. At a massive site in southern Turkey called Çatalhöyük, large ...

Discovered by chance in 1850, Skara Brae is the best-preserved Neolithic village in Europe. Located on the coast of Orkney, Scotland, this 5,000-year-old site is a fascinating reminder of a long ...

Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic village in Italy. The bones were worn and broken, but there was no evidence of violence, leading the researchers to suspect the ...

An ancient seawall built by neolithic people to protect their village from sea-level rise over 7,000 years ago has been discovered by scientists. The 330-foot wall, off the Carmel coast of Israel, was ...

COYO, Chile (Reuters) - Deep within the wind-swept Atacama desert in northern Chile, the remnants of a forgotten civilization rise from the sand. Sign up here. At first the ruins are barely visible, ...