"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

VILLUPURAM: Stone axe tools believed to be from the Neolithic period, dating back about 5,000 years, have been discovered in Veedur village in Villupuram. The discovery was made by Aranga Mayakrishnan ...

Neolithic humans were apparently big on reuse. According to an analysis of bones from Cueva de los Marmoles, or Marmoles Cave in Southern Spain, it wasn't necessarily uncommon for living humans to ...

Ahead of a construction project, archaeologists in a French municipality recently excavated the slopes of Punta Campana and discovered an expansive Neolithic site full of ancient artifacts. The site ...

Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from the site of Jebel Oraf shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic, shedding new light on the subsistence and lifestyle of ancient peoples in the ...

VIRUDHUNAGAR: Rubbing grooves (karuvi thaeipu pallangal), used to shape and sharpen stone tools during the Neolithic period, believed to be around 8000 years old have been discovered at Shenbagathoppu ...

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 ...

DENIZLI, TURKEY—Hurriyet Daily News reports that 8,600-year-old textile tools have been uncovered in western Anatolia at the ancient settlement site of Ekşi Höyük. Fulya Dedeoğlu of Ege University ...

Archaeologists in Cork uncovered the foundations of a 5,700-year-old Neolithic house in addition to evidence of Iron Age smelting and Bronze Age burial sites in 2020. The archaeologists excavated a ...