Archaeologists recently found straight lines of 25 pits dating to around 8,000 years ago. The Mesolithic pits contain animal bones, including those of an extinct species of cattle. The pits could shed ...

Long before ancient Britons erected the mysterious monoliths of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, the region was a hunting hot spot where Mesolithic people stalked animals, including, researchers now ...

SCARBOROUGH, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that traces of a Mesolithic settlement dated to some 10,500 years ago have been found in North Yorkshire by Nick Overton of the University of Manchester and his ...

Genetic research has unlocked the mystery behind a Mesolithic double burial unearthed in Germany. Dating back to 7000-6800 BCE, the discovery of an adult woman and an infant in Bad Dürrenberg has long ...

An open field in Scotland was set to be dotted with the homes of a fresh new subdivision. But right as the project was getting underway, archaeologists studying the area uncovered nearly 12,000 years ...

There’s no face on the oldest piece of art—a small sandstone figurine of a human from the Mesolithic era—ever found in one region of modern-day Azerbaijan. “Its stylistic features considerably differ ...

In a recent study by Dany Coutinho-Nogueira and his colleagues, the remains of three non-adults from Cabeço da Amoreira were analyzed. The work is published in the journal Childhood in the Past.

Members of a hunter-gatherer group that lived in south-western Scandinavia during the Mesolithic era — approximately 10,000 years ago — may have been affected by tooth decay and gum disease, according ...