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 ...

A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

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

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

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 ...

Alepotrypa Burial Cave in Greece, used 8,000 years ago and later reused by Mycenaeans, contains ancient historical treasures ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...

“Traditionally, it has been considered that large passage tombs like Newgrange were the burial places of special or important ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, people met, mingled, and had children with each other throughout the Irish Neolithic period, regardless of how they buried their dead. There is no evidence that patterns of marriage ...