As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed from ...
A "unique" and mysterious collection of engraved stone plaques were seemingly sacrificed by prehistoric people in Scandinavia following a devastating volcanic eruption around 4,900 years ago, a study ...
Photograph showing ambient light levels and the position of replica plaquettes in relation to the fire. (Needham et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0) (CN) — British researchers may have discovered the ...
Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption occurred on ...
A small stone tablet featuring geometric art made by the Magdalenians, an Ice Age people that once inhabited Europe. The Natural History Museum A group of ten stone fragments covered in abstract ...
A "unique" and mysterious collection of engraved stone plaques were seemingly sacrificed by prehistoric people in Scandinavia following a devastating volcanic eruption around 4,900 years ago, a study ...