An ugly, misshapen blob of glassified soil could rewrite the story of humanity’s technological heritage, suggesting that we ...

This is a map of neolithic pottery exchange network in the Baltic Sea region. The image may only be used with appropriate caption and credit.

Traditionally, copper metallurgy is not thought to have emerged until millennia later, during the Chalcolithic period. Thus ...

Other items such as pottery were found in the same area as the arrowhead, but dating the pieces so far has not narrowed their production date to a more specific range than the early Neolithic period, ...

Archaeologists uncover an 8,400-year-old human figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, shedding new light on Mesolithic art ...

The study included fourteen sets of grinding tools belonging to the Linear Pottery culture, which existed at the beginning of the Neolithic period and reached its peak between 4900 and 4650 BCE ...

The three belong to the Linear Pottery culture that existed at the beginning of the Neolithic period (4900 and 4650 BC) in Central Europe. Researchers studied the technical, functional and ...

Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...

These associated sites also share a clear chronological framework, as they are all dated to the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. The archaeological material, mostly made up of abundant lithic ...