New research has revealed that women and children were deliberately targeted in one of the largest prehistoric mass killings discovered in Europe. Archaeological investigations at the Gomolava burial ...

Copper smelters from 3,000 years ago may have experimented with materials just enough to launch the Iron Age. The Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age as the refining process of iron was discovered.

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A recent study by Dr. Albert Jambon and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, revealed the presence of meteoric iron in Early Iron Age ornaments in Poland.

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During the Iron Age, Celtic tribes across Europe sounded battle trumpets to rally troops — and intimidate their Roman enemies. One of these wind instruments has turned up in remarkable condition in ...

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But the known forensic patterns observed in the aforementioned scenarios don’t exactly match the pattern of the Iron Age cranium, leading the authors to conclude that it likely resulted from a ...

An Iron Age Scottish woman likely had her brains scooped out after she died as part of her burial, according to a new study that sheds further light on the complex funerary rites of this prehistoric ...