The city of Bolzano, in northern Italy, has many things of which it can boast. It has a scenic location, wedged into a narrow valley between the gray, craggy escarpments of the Dolomites. It has an ...

Ancient DNA from Neolithic tombs in Scotland reveals a hidden web of family ties across five prehistoric burial sites.

Ötzi, the frozen remains of the Neolithic man we’ve all grown to know and love, finally has a job. According to scientists, Frozen Fritz was a herder. Besides dining on unleavened bread and meat and ...

The feathers on two of his arrows showed that Neolithic man understood the ballistic principles that make an arrow rotate and fly more accurately. The embers that he carried, wrapped in maple leaves ...