“We already had some evidence that dark skins remained in Europe for longer than expected,” said Barbujani. For example, the ...

The analysis found that modern European-like traits first appeared ... about 45,000 to 13,000 years ago)', '2: Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age: about 14,000 to 4,000 years ago)', '3: Neolithic ...

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...

Malta cave provides experts with evidence that indicates humans possibly forayed into the sea before becoming farmers.

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

The Mesolithic period is known as the middle stone ... Elephants, hippos, rhinos and hyenas all moved north through Europe to live in Britain. Britain was home to most of the species of birds ...

The Mesolithic period, or Middle Stone Age was ... This dietary switch could be the reason Europeans developed lighter skin. "In the food-production theory, the cereal-rich diet of Neolithic ...

Previous studies of DNA from Mesolithic individuals recovered from Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary identified that they also lacked the versions of genes associated with reduced skin pigmentation in ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...