Researchers determined that dozens of men, women and children were violently killed and cannibalized in Bronze Age-era ...

Did the Minoans disappear after the Bronze Age? Or did they continue to exist as a distinct people among the inhabitants of Crete?

The nearly 5,000-year-old remains of a "sacrificial ass" whose head had been severed and feet tied together have been ...

Direct physical evidence for violence in Early Bronze Age Britain (approximately 2500 B.C. to 1500 B.C.) is generally very limited, despite the fact that hundreds of skeletons have been found from ...

The Bronze Age in Britain began around 2,500 BC and lasted for nearly 1,500 years. It was a time when sophisticated bronze tools, pots and weapons were brought over from continental Europe.

The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history. An international research team ...

A rare and grisly find. While hundreds of human skeletons dating back between 2500 and 1500 BCE in the area, direct evidence of a violent conflict is quite rare to come by.

The seeds span 7,000 years, from the Neolithic Period up to the Medieval Period. In the sites older than 1000 BCE, nearly all of the grape seeds share the size and proportions of modern wild ...