This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology Field School excavated one of the most extraordinary sites we have ever had the pleasure of investigating. The site is an Early Neolithic long barrow ...

An ancient Neolithic structure known as a cursus, believed to be the only complete such monument found in Britain, has been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Arran. A team of archaeologists, led by ...

Ancient genomes from northwest Europe show that farming, foraging, migration, and marriage shaped prehistory in ways far more ...

A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by archaeologists. The researchers found the previously ...

From the website History Facts, when did we start drinking cow's milk? After all, drinking another species' milk was unusual.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In a wide-reaching study published in the journal Nature, a team of researchers spanning the globe ...

Last year, researchers announced that they had made one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in British history. Just 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the world famous monument of Stonehenge, ...

There’s much we don’t know about the Neolithic culture that built Stonehenge. But there’s one thing archaeologists can say for certain: they certainly feasted on pork. A new study suggests their pig ...

A team of scientists has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots. A team of ...

YORK, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that calcified plaque scraped from 6,000-year-old teeth has provided early evidence for dairy consumption among Britain’s Neolithic farmers. Traces of dairy products ...