Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

Rick Steves' Europe Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of Prehistoric Europe Season 12 Episode 1201 | 28m 4s | CC As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated ...

Scientists have discovered direct evidence that people in Europe used psychoactive drugs during the Bronze Age, possibly as part of ancient rituals.

The geochemistry of copper artefacts reveals changes in distribution networks across prehistoric Europe, according to a study published May 10, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Jan Piet ...

People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one’s role in society belongs in the past. But was it even the case in prehistory? Archaeologists at the University of ...

Scientists have discovered direct evidence that people in Europe used psychoactive drugs during the Bronze Age, possibly as part of ancient rituals.

Modern behavior explains prehistoric economies Date: August 1, 2024 Source: University of Göttingen Summary: What if the 'Market Economy' always existed? Archaeologists tried to answer this ...

Humans first made dogs their best friends in prehistoric Europe, where groups of hunter-gathers learnt to tame dangerous wolves into companions between 19,000 and 32,000 years ago, scientists said ...

Ancient sippy cup may hold clues about agriculture’s spread in Europe Earlier weaning thanks to ruminant milk could have increased ancient birth rates.

European warriors ate each other's brains to celebrate victory in battle 18,000 years ago, researchers found.

It is widely assumed that Europe used to be covered by dense, unbroken forests, but ancient pollen shows half was grassland or light woodland   ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age ...