They began to set up farms. These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as setting up farms and permanent homes, they also built ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

offer a tangible connection between domestic architecture and burial practices in Neolithic Britain. It implies that early communities may have repurposed their dwellings into tombs as part of ...

Stonehenge may be the most famous Neolithic monument in Britain, but the country is dotted with even older and equally intriguing ancient structures. One of the most remarkable is Arthur’s Stone ...

As well as sharing similarities with other Danish woodhenges, there is also a striking parity with a known woodhenge in ...

They date to the later part of the Neolithic. Most henges do not contain standing stones ... On the inner side of the ditch is the largest stone circle in Britain. Within this circle were two further ...

“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 ...

New research reveals Flagstones in Dorset dates to 3,200 years BC and sheds new light on the origins of monumental ...

COPENHAGEN — Danish archeologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old circle of wooden piles that they say could be linked to Britain's world-renowned Stonehenge. The 45 neolithic-era wooden pieces, in a ...

Danish archeologists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old circle of wooden piles that they say could be linked to Britain's world-renowned Stonehenge. The 45 Neolithic-era wooden pieces, in a circle with a ...