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 ...

The top of these pots were beautifully decorated and the area where they sat was surrounded by stone to protect them from being bumped and broken. Neolithic people built grave mounds to bury their ...

The “sacred arc” theory might sound like a plot point straight out of a fantasy novel, but it really describes an ...

Stand at “the Ness” today and several iconic Stone Age structures are within easy view, forming the core of a World Heritage site called the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. On a heather-clad knoll ...

reinforce the idea that prehistoric people constructed a "sacred arc" of stone circles around high land in the area during the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age. Endacott, who is studying for a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age. The unusual site, located in the ...

The so-called Neolithic decline ... The researchers propose that a Stone Age pandemic originated in small farming villages and spread to mega-settlements and far-off lands along with traders ...

Evidence of two previously unknown prehistoric stone circles has been uncovered in southern England—with one site seemingly ...