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 ...

Researchers from Kiel, Münster, Schleswig and Hamburg have now analyzed bones from late Neolithic farmers within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center 1266 "Scales of Transformation ...

Long-serving resident Simon Fairlie, 73, even led the dozen 'intentional community' members in mowing the lawns with scythes. But that all ended last year after newcomer Stephen Williams, ...

Recent research by Dr. Mikael Fauvelle and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, proposes that the neolithic Pitted Ware Culture (PWC) may have used skin boats to ...

“It’s a huge, enormous amount of stone, and it’s always been a mystery and an intriguing scientific question how on Earth (it ...

A settlement site discovered in Zhejiang is from the early to middle period of the Neolithic Age, dating back to approximately 9,300 to 8,000 years ago. This site contains important remains such ...

The megalithic monuments of the Neolithic era—consisting of large stones and peculiar architecture—have long perplexed ...

Then go and fill it all in again. But this is exactly what's happening at the Ness of Brodgar, one of the most important Neolithic sites in the British Isles. After two decades of patient ...

Blessed with fertile soil and a mild climate, Orkney was a land of plenty for Neolithic homesteaders. Agricultural wealth helped give them the freedom to pursue grand architectural dreams.

It has been 100 years since a 6,000-year-old ancient chamber in Jersey was discovered. The Neolithic passage grave at La Hougue Bie was uncovered by Société Jersiaise archaeologists in 1924.