Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago ... flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried ...

Ice cores are long cylinders drilled from ... providing fascinating insights into the ritual practices of Europeans in the Neolithic (or New Stone Age) and a prehistoric environmental crisis.

the environment of the sparse Middle Stone Age or Mesolithic communities which inhabited Wales in the millennia following the retreat of the ice. The Neolithic or New Stone Age (4000-2400 BC ...