Neolithic farming halls older than Stonehenge discovered beneath school - Archaeologists say the discovery of what they ...

The great 20-30 tonne stones of Stonehenge were erected by Neolithic farmers whose ancestors had lived in Britain for at least the previous 1,500 years – and new genetic research on 51 skeletons ...

The culture of farming arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago, marking the beginning of the Neolithic period (New Stone Age). Previously, in the Mesolithic period (Middle Stone Age) Britain had been ...

The mystical Callanish stones of the Scottish Isle of Lewis On the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, the stone ...

The discovery that Neolithic people had the technology to make salt has major implications for the modern world’s understanding of how Britain’s early agricultural economy functioned.

How Far Did Neolithic Britons Carry Stonehenge’s Most Famous Boulder? ... Of the 900-plus prehistoric stone circles in Britain, it is the only one that was built entirely from non-local stones.

Neolithic Britain revealed by Cardiff University The new dating technique shows that Windmill Hill, a large Neolithic causewayed enclosure in Avebury, was built in 3700-3640 BC.

So Britain saw two extreme genetic shifts in the space of a few thousand years. Prof Thomas said that this later event happened after the Neolithic population had been in decline for some time ...

“Nowhere else in all Britain or Ireland have such well-preserved stone houses from the Neolithic survived, so Orkney is already punching above its weight,” says Antonia Thomas, an ...

By the end of the monument's various construction phases—around 1600 B.C.—Britain's insular Neolithic population appears to have been largely replaced by people with continental European ancestry.

Two polished stone balls shaped about 5,500 years ago — linked to a mysterious practice almost unique to Neolithic Britain — have been discovered in an ancient Scottish tomb.

Two of Britain's leading archaeologists, Professor Timothy Darvill and Professor Geoff Wainwright, believe Stonehenge attracted healers and medicine men. The question is, what medicinal offerings ...