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.

New evidence suggests that a volcanic eruption around 2,900 BCE had devastating impacts on Neolithic societies in ... from the University of Copenhagen. Ice core analyses from Greenland and ...

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 ...

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 ...