Archaeologist and study co-author Mike Parker Pearson, from University College London (UCL), said Neolithic Britons and Beaker groups organised their societies in very different ways. The ...

How or why Neolithic Britons would have moved such a substantial stone this great distance may never be fully revealed. But it does tell us something about the culture of the period, which spans ...

Despite the fact that it’s over 5,000 years old, Maeshowe, Orkney's answer to Stonehenge, is in amazing shape. But why did Neolithic Britons go to such great lengths to build it? Explore ...

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 ...

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 ...

The position has been documented as early as the Later Neolithic era ... in England led researchers to believe that Bronze Age Britons used a variety of ways to mummify the dead, including ...

“Humans have always had a fascination with finding the perfect rock, and maybe the Neolithic Britons are the same, so their motivations are lost to time.” The researchers said that as a next ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

Bronze Age Britons were cannibals who ate their enemies ... “We actually find more evidence for injuries to skeletons dating to the Neolithic period in Britain than the Early Bronze Age ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

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 ...