It was assumed for a long time that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. However, a new DNA analysis of 55 ...

Stand at “the Ness” today and several iconic Stone Age structures are within easy view, forming the core of a World Heritage site called the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. On a heather-clad knoll ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

In their stately ruins, the remains of these structures offer glimpses of the Stone Age people who made them, people at once familiar and deeply strange, whose voices are lost but whose sharp ...

nudiblue – stock.adobe.com The enormous stone structure, complete with angular ... If verified, the Yonaguni Monument’s age of over 10,000 years would place it millennia before Egypt’s ...

Covered with highly stylized or representational engravings of stags, deer stones are the most important surviving structures ... The Deer Stone Monuments and Related Sites are significant and ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists ...

Archaeologists working on Stone Age remains at a site in North Yorkshire say it contains ... The research team unearthed the 3.5 metres circular structure next to an ancient lake at Star Carr, near ...

The materials, forms and locations of structures dating from the Bronze Age (1600 BCE) to the Late Iron Age (123 BCE) show the evolution of a “cyclopean” architecture built with very large blocks of ...