Evidence from the site indicates that Neolithic people deposited the stones en masse over a short period—possibly in a single event—around 2900 B.C.

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 ...

Neolithic people in Denmark sacrificed ‘sun stones’ after climate ... The ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge near Amesbury is viewed from a hot air ballon on September 7, 2016 ...

What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic ...

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"Spare a thought for our Neolithic ancestors, where the heavily forested landscape, rivers, bogs and mountains — it would have been formidable, if not impossible,” he said, adding that people ...

New Irish-led research casts doubts over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland ...

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 from the University of ...

Neolithic People Sacrificed 'Sun Stones' After Volcano 4,900 Years Ago. Published Jan 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM EST Updated Jan 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM EST. By .

Neolithic people in Denmark sacrificed ‘sun stones’ after climate cataclysm, scientists say ...

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.