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 ...

Misconception: Stone Age food was unrecognizable ... enough room for some partying along the way. During the late Neolithic period, the areas surrounding Stonehenge may have played host to ...

Findings regarding the food traces found on the island have been published in the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. The area where these discoveries were made was a Neolithic ...

The Neolithic communities of the Iberian Peninsula were already strategically and efficiently managing cattle herds 6,000 ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

These engraved stone plaques appear to have been sacrificed by Stone Age people ... from the same period points to widespread outbreaks of the plague, indicating that Neolithic peoples of Northern ...

This new insight into a climate episode in the Neolithic period has led archaeologists ... changes and the discovery of the ritual sun stone sacrifices. "It is reasonable to believe that the ...

Early architecture in the Near East included a variety of structures built using advanced techniques, according to a new study that challenges previous beliefs about the region’s history.