Because of the overabundance of grave goods surrounding the pair, archaeologists concluded that she was likely a shaman who died about 9,000 years ago, during the Mesolithic period. However ...

Chemical analysis recently showed that the Chinese were making a kind of wine from rice, honey, and fruit 9,000 years ago. In the Caucasus Mountains of modern-day Georgia and the Zagros Mountains ...

Mineral deposits on a submerged bridge in a Spanish cave are helping researchers determine when ancient humans settled on ...

Some 19,000 artefacts, some dating as far back as 9,000 years ago to the Mesolithic period, were discovered in the UK last week. They were found at a residential development project at Calthorpe ...

The angry face of Dawn is on display at the Acropolis Museum in Athens This is what Dawn may have looked like when she was alive, 9,000 years ago. The face of a girl, thought to be aged between 15 ...

Though this is later than the appearance of the first forms of agriculture in the Middle East, about 9,000 years ago, it is still a respectable age. The Chilca people, as Professor Engel calls ...

Our story begins 9,000 years ago. It was then that maize was first domesticated in the Mexican lowlands. Some 5,000 years later, the crop crossed with a species from the Mexican highlands called ...

Maize had originated in southwestern Mexico around 9,000 years ago and was dispersed to South America before being fully domesticated. It was then reintroduced to the north. Isotope analysis of ...

About 9,000 years ago, maize was first domesticated by Indigenous peoples in the Mexican lowlands. Roughly 5,000 years later, maize crossed with a different type from the Mexican highlands called ...

A recent study led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of South Florida and the University of New ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two human skeletons, one of a child and the other of an infant, estimated to be 7,600 years old ...

An ancient bridge submerged within the depths of Genovesa Cave on the Spanish island of Mallorca has unveiled new evidence ...