They began to set up farms. These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as setting up farms and permanent homes, they also built ...

The woman had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of ...

According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes in climate, and the ritual sun stone sacrifices. In addition to a ...

"Many a seeker can spend his whole life wandering around and not find something equally valuable." A metal detectorist combing a forest in eastern Poland just stumbled upon a rare, 6,000-year-old ...

"The ditches were subsequently closed.” Speaking with Salon, Iversen brought the Neolithic rituals to life by describing the elaborate ceremonies that would have been practiced by the ancient ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

6200–3300 BCE. Credit: Rebecca Bristow et al. The team suggests that figurines, commonly associated with rituals and the integration of densely populated communities, lost significance as Neolithic ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...