On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic home is open to the air ...

Were Greece's Neolithic Dimini people responsible for the violent conquest of the Sesklo people, or did the two communities coexist?

Two ancient stone circles have emerged from the grassy wilds of Dartmoor, offering a clearer picture of life 5,000 years ago.

In Ireland's Neolithic period, which lasted from about 3900 to 2500 B.C., people built "megalithic monuments" — large stone structures that contained human bones and cremated remains.

The tools and their ritual deposits may reflect the lives of Neolithic populations who ... This suggests an analogy with the cycles of life of people and settlements, which were periodically ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

Layers within the cave show a high density of Neolithic settlements, and trace life back to Middle Paleolithic and Mesolithic times. The figurine in question (dubbed Unit 5.2) was initially almost ...

During the Irish Neolithic period, which lasted approximately from 3900 to 2500 BCE, people built megalithic monuments—large stone structures that contained human bones and cremated remains ...

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires ...

So says a UCD-led group of archeologists, whose findings portray a less hierarchical picture of daily life in Neolithic ... were defined in Neolithic Ireland – whether people defined themselves ...