In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs ...

The route they discovered didn’t just track migration — it revealed pockets of resistance to the Neolithic revolution, as well as signs of sea-faring derring-do. During that period, starting around 12 ...

A new DNA research challenges the myth of elite burials in Ireland, revealing a complex, community-driven story behind ...

Anthropologist Alex Bentley tells The Conversation Weekly about his research how modelling the spread of COVID sparked new ...

During that period, starting around 12,000 years ago, societies started shifting from hunter-gatherers to farming ... used in ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

Unlike the clay figurines of the Neolithic period, which are commonly found in early farming villages, the Damjili figurine is made of stone. It measures 51 mm in length and 15 mm in width and has an ...