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One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney. The builders of the chambered cairn known as Maes Howe ...

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Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region of China, dating back thousands of years. The site, ...

Our human ancestors fundamentally changed their eating behavior in the Neolithic period. This was when they began to cultivate cereals and domesticate wild animals.

The charcoal is particularly important as it can be radiocarbon dated and might well show that these sites were occupied by people in the early Neolithic period, around 3,500 BC. The results are due ...

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“The sun stones clearly show how important the sun was in the daily life ... places where people gathered for community rituals. Such sites existed throughout Europe during the Neolithic period ...