(CN) — Cannibalism, whether to stave off death by starvation or within the confines of ritual ceremony, is regarded as one of the most extreme human practices. And there are still many questions as to ...

Nestled within the valleys, hills and open fields of Wales, lies one of Western Europe's most remarkable collections of prehistoric Neolithic burial chambers. These ancient structures, dating from ...

The first European agriculturalists, some 7,000 years ago, may have met a bloody end. Is the suggestion that this was a conflict with other Linear Pottery culture people? Or could it have been a ...

It's an age often described as one of social unrest, leading to an "apocalyptic nightmare of violence, warfare, and cannibalism." A Neolithic mass grave in Germany shows the idea may not be far wrong.

Archaeologists have long suggested that the placement of human remains in tombs during the Stone Age of northwestern Europe reflects one of the ways in which kinship was created and negotiated.

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...