But now his discovery could change how scientists think about the Neolithic Near East. More than 100 of the unusual flint artifacts dating back to about 7500 B.C. have been discovered at Kharaysin ...

The Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes, covering more than 100 ha, are the largest and earliest concentration of ancient mines in Europe. They are also remarkable for the diversity of technological ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

The mayor's Middle Neolithic remains were found near the Bavarian ... a stone ax and a stone adze; and a boar's tooth split in two. You may like 'It epitomises the strangeness of Sutton Hoo ...

Stone was quarried and mined and traded over considerable distances during the Neolithic. In southern and eastern England flint was mined from chalk bedrock by sinking shafts into the ground and ...

At Neolithic Mehrgarh, flint drill heads occur in the lithic assemblages associated with beads of bone, steatite, shell, calcite, turquoise, lapis lazuli and carnelian 7. Using models of these ...

Construction work on the Old Petty Championship Golf Course at Cabot Highlands near Inverness uncovered at least 25 Neolithic wooden buildings, flint tools, a prehistoric post circle and other ...

The question is, what medicinal offerings were avaliable in late Neolithic Britain ... with a surgeon's scalpel (even if it was made of flint). According to archaeological forensic pathologist ...

You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing r.white@newsweek.com A Neolithic settlement discovered ... archaeologists found 15 flint mines over an area of 450 hectares (1112 acres) and 135 ...

Stone age people in Pakistan were using dental drills made of flint 9,000 years ago, according to researchers. Teeth from a Neolithic graveyard in Mehgarh in the country's Baluchistan province show ...

A hoard of Neolithic pottery and flint tools, which lay buried for over 4,000 years, has been uncovered during works to lay a pipe in Fife. The find at Kincaple was made as engineers laid pipework ...

The "incredibly rare" tomb, which is from the Neolithic era, was largely destroyed without record in the 19th century, according to the museum. Only 12 of such tombs have been found in Orkney.