Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

The findings come from new research. Archaeologists say they now have strong scientific proof that a series of huge pits discovered near Stonehenge were carved by humans more than 4,000 years ago. The ...

Fact of the Day: In today’s series of the daily facts, we will discuss and explore about the Neolithic Age, which is one of the important age in the Stone age. In this age only, agriculture, ...

The Ness of Brodgar lies on a narrow strip of land between two Orkney lochs Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an "extraordinary ...

Turkey reveals some 30 new Neolithic artefacts Gobeklitepe, Karahantepe reshaping understanding of prehistory Main site expected to attract 800,000 visitors this year SANLIURFA, Turkey, Nov 26 ...

Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an "extraordinary discovery". The dig team at the Ness, one of the most important Neolithic sites ...

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...

SAYBURC, TURKEY—Over the past two decades, archaeological work in southeastern Turkey’s Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, region has changed the way that archaeologists think about early human history, ...

A local Neolithic community in northeastern France may have clashed with foreign invaders, cutting off limbs as war trophies and otherwise brutalizing their prisoners of war, according to a new paper ...

The Neolithic period, considered to be the last part of the Stone Age, may have been a brutal time to be alive for many people in Europe. Archaeological studies have found evidence of massacres ...

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