An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools out of bone persisted even ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of prehistoric copper smelting in Cave 338, situated 7,332 feet above sea level in Spain’s Pyrenees. Excavations revealed hearths, mineral fragments likely to be ...

The Chalcolithic site of Valencina de la Concepción in Seville was permanently occupied for a thousand years, between 3300 and 2150 BCE, by a community of several thousand inhabitants who organized ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a Copper Age mining camp in Cave 338, located in Spain’s Núria Valley. Excavations revealed nearly 200 malachite fragments, 23 hearths, human remains, and ...

Researchers poring over genomes of people who lived during the Copper Age have found older cultural contacts between ancient groups than previously known. The early contacts—about a millennium earlier ...

The highest status individual in ancient Copper Age society in Iberia, was a woman and not a man as previously thought, according to peptide analysis reported in Scientific Reports. The individual, ...