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

providing fascinating insights into the ritual practices of Europeans in the Neolithic (or New Stone Age) and a prehistoric environmental crisis. The first discovery of the so-called sun stones ...

About 8,500 years ago, a 5'6" man with size 11 feet walked along the Severn Estuary at 2.6 miles per hour carrying a heavy load on his right shoulder. Archaeologists deduced all this from a series of ...

Starting about 7,000 years ago, ancient humans in what is now northeastern Spain buried their dead deep in a cave, creating a necropolis of sorts that spans about four millennia and now contains ...

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. A volcanic eruption in 2910 B.C. may be the reason Neolithic people on a ...

Despite damage over the millennia, archaeologists identified two parallel stone walls wrapping ... In France, early Neolithic archaeological remains are mainly found in caves and rock shelters.

Värikallio rock paintings are some of the most famous examples of Stone Age rock art in Finland. Because some of the paintings depict a person drumming with their hands, researchers suggest the ...

The earliest evidence of human beings in Wales dates from about 225,000 BC, the date given to human teeth found in Pontnewydd Cave in ... The Neolithic or New Stone Age (4000-2400 BC) The ...

the subsequent climate changes and the discovery of the ritual sun stone sacrifices. "It is reasonable to believe that the Neolithic people on Bornholm wanted to protect themselves from further ...

Come to the first human beings in Wales, this cave provided ... truly alive for Neolithic man. Typifying the type of burial chamber stretching into West Wales, Arthur's Stone or Maen Ceti is ...

Described as a rare find by the regional archaeology department, one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in France, attributed to the Early Cardial period, is currently being excavated by ...