Long before the Neolithic transformed Europe, a handful of hunter-gatherers crossed a shrinking sea and began reshaping a ...

Take a two-minute hop across the sea to a tiny, uninhabited Orkney isle where 5,000 years of history await.

Scientists have identified the oldest known human remains in Northern Britain as a young girl who lived around 11,000 years ...

The oldest human remains found in northern Britain belong to a young girl who lived about 11,000 years ago. Her bones were ...

The incredible archaeological discovery in Cumbria has changed some parts of Britain's prehistoric timeline because the ...

The Lake District National Park's own data suggests that 77 per cent of its protected wildlife sites are in an "unfavourable condition". In wildlife terms, critics argue, the national park is average ...

The study's findings challenge the notion that the introduction of agriculture abruptly replaced hunting and fishing among early humans.

Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and ...

Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a ...

For generations, ecologists assumed that thick, closed-canopy forest blanketed Europe long before humans arrived, a primeval ...

A one-day exhibition is to be held in Melton featuring some of the fascinating finds unearthed by archaeologists during the ...

Cavemen conducted dental surgery tens of thousands of years before anesthetics, reveals new research. Neanderthal dentists ...