Far from the common assumption of a strictly binary division of labor, the roles of women and men in Neolithic Europe were ...

Ancient bones from France reveal that Neolithic wars may have ended in ritualized executions and trophy-taking. The evidence suggests violence was staged to display dominance and unite communities.

New evidence from Neolithic mass graves in northeastern France suggests that some of Europe’s earliest violent encounters were not random acts of brutality, but carefully staged displays of power. By ...

Burials uncovered in northeastern France have drawn renewed attention to evidence of organised violence in Neolithic Europe. Archaeologists studying human remains from pits at Achenheim and Bergheim, ...

A new study of early Neolithic bows in Mediterranean finds diverse wood use, highlighting how hunting remained important alongside farming.

Archaeologists uncovered a rare 7,500-year-old Neolithic figurine in Romania, offering new insight into early farming communities.

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...

New research published in the journal Science Advances challenges previous theories about prehistoric conflict by offering a detailed look into the lives and deaths of victims of what could be one of ...

The headdress, discovered at the Eilsleben settlement, suggests that Neolithic people traded with Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.

Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe : an introduction / Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- The placement of the feathers : violence among sub-boreal foragers from Gotland ...

The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...