Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Orkney Islands Council (OIC) have opened the public consultation for feedback on the draft management plan for the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The management ...

The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site is full of fascinating prehistoric domestic and funerary architecture, including the slightly later Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae ...

The Neolithic Flint Mines project was established in order to fully record and widely disseminate the results of the early 20th century investigations for the first time. Harrow Hill: a Neolithic ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society. Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society. Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to ...

Senior archaeologist Ravi Korisettar – honorary director at the Robert Bruce Foote Sangankallu Archaeological Museum – hinted during the event that its antecedents could be found in the ‘Southern ...

The results indicate that the infants had a genetic mix between local hunter-gatherers and the newly arrived Neolithic people, whereas the individuals buried in the pit were of purely Anatolian/Aegean ...

It also features rock statues with carvings of animals like foxes and snakes that date back as far as 10,000 ... It is made of a large circular mound filled with decorated passageways and chambers.

The protected Tomb of the Eagles at Isbister in South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands, will soon be open to visitors once again after a community trust was awarded almost £358,000 in funding. The bones of ...