Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film. Though the remains were first excavated and documented in the 1960s, they ...

Dating back 10,000 years, Cheddar Man was part of a hunter-gatherer group in Mesolithic Britain. ... Other nearby Mesolithic grave sites show the presence of mass cave burials.

The few Mesolithic graves that had been unearthed in Europe contained a flint blade or two, at most. In comparison, the Bad Dürrenberg grave was uniquely rich for the period.

There’s no face on the oldest piece of art—a small sandstone figurine of a human from the Mesolithic era—ever found in one region of modern-day Azerbaijan.. In a study published by ...

The grave of the German soldier. Wdecki Park Krajobrazowy As the park's archaeology team worked to remove the body, they discovered a trove of archaeological treasures.

The contents of German soldier's World War II grave found in the Polish countryside shocked archaeologists. The soldier was found inside the Wdecki Landscape Park, a nationally protected area in ...

In addition, two transverse arrowheads made of quartz and two other possible quartz objects were found in the grave. Based on the shape of the arrowheads and shore-level dating, the burial can be ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

Mesolithic tools discovered. Credit: Wdecki Park Krajobrazowy . Excavating around the soldier’s grave, the team found evidence of something much older: stone tools dating back to the Mesolithic period ...

Exclusive: This 7,000-year-old woman was among Sweden's last hunter-gatherers. Buried on a bed of antlers and adorned with ornaments, this woman was a special member of her community—but why?

Teeth and arrowheads found in the red ochre grave. ... the burial can be estimated to have taken place in the Mesolithic period of the Stone Age, roughly 6,000 years before the Common Era.