The results indicate that the infants had a genetic mix between local hunter-gatherers and the newly arrived Neolithic people ... leading to speculation that the houses may have been used as birthing ...

The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site is full of fascinating prehistoric domestic and funerary architecture, ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was ... in all Britain or Ireland have such well-preserved stone houses from the Neolithic survived, so Orkney is already punching above its weight ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic ... there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic ...

Kieran Dodds This was not a grave but a building, and not Bronze Age but older—Neolithic. And it was thought likely that there was more to be discovered. “I didn’t realize,” Hoey says ...