The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations.

Archaeologists have investigated genetic relationships between individuals buried in Neolithic chambered tombs in northern ...

An analysis of DNA from Stone Age skeletons buried in Scotland reveals how people organized the burial of their dead.

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual ...

At Tell Aswad in Syria, archaeologists uncovered plastered skulls with modeled noses, lips, ears, and closed eyes. These ...

The population drop opened the door for outsiders to repopulate with new demographics and cultures.

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...

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Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic north Syria between about 11,600 and 7,500 years ago. Using advanced ...

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Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

There is variability in the level of conscience in individuals (from serial killers to people who have a very strong sense of morality that is not religious dogma masquerading as conscience), as the ...