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Neolithic Farmers May Have Buried These Mysterious Stones to Bring Back the Sun After a Volcanic Eruption
The Neolithic decline was followed by “profound ... the steppe north of the Black Sea into Europe,” Iversen tells the Art Newspaper’s Garry Shaw. To confirm this theory, future studies ...
The Harvard Crimson6y
Neolithic Cultures Introduce Beauty
Neolithic man first discovered the principles of beauty in art, stated Sir Herbert Road in the second Charles Eliot Norton lecture at New Lecture Hall last night. Completely abstract geometrical ...
Science Daily1mon
Volcanic eruption caused Neolithic people to sacrifice unique 'sun stones'
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 ...
BBC3y
7 scintillating facts about the Neolithic settlement that buried bodies under the floor
Most of this art depicts wild animals, with one relief showing vultures attacking headless humans. Gorgeous. Don’t worry, no prehistoric zombies here! Like many Neolithic communities ...
Phys.org1mon
Volcanic eruptions linked to Neolithic 'sun stone' sacrifices in Denmark
More information: Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark. Antiquity. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2024.217 ...