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In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical ...
These early pottery Neolithic sites are very rare after ... The team also discovered several stones with holes carved through them, likely used for weighing down fishing nets, and other kinds ...
Neolithic people on the islands built their ... But today all that remains are the holes in the stone which held the bar. Once your guest had arrived and the door was closed, you could offer ...
This open-air structure was likely part of a larger "ritual landscape" used by prehistoric people of the Late Neolithic (New ...
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 ...
One or more entrances lead to the centre of the henge. They date to the later part of the Neolithic. Most henges do not contain standing stones, although many contained circular arrangements of pits ...
New research reveals that Flagstones in Dorset dates back to 3,200 BC, offering new insight into the origins of monumental ...
The Orkney archipelago was an epicenter of Neolithic life ... and interior stone furniture. Each single-room hut contained a hearth and, apparently, a toilet hole leading to a common sewer.
In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs ...
9 In eastern and southern Scotland and extending into southern England the visible remains of the Neolithic consist mainly of earthen barrows (Kinnes 1992a). On the ground today these monuments ...