“It’s a huge, enormous amount of stone, and it’s always been a mystery and an intriguing scientific question how on Earth (it was built given) the technology they had in the Neolithic period.

who has spent more than a decade studying the Baltinglass landscape—an area known for Bronze Age and medieval forts, but not ...

Neolithic people seem to have understood sophisticated concepts in science, such as physics and geology, using this knowledge to construct a megalithic monument in southern Spain. Called the Menga ...

Historically, the Neolithic period saw early settlements on the plain ... with areas near Durrington Walls and Stonehenge becoming focal points. Iron Age hill forts sprang up around the plain's ...

The research directly addresses one of Stonehenge’s many mysteries and also opens up new avenues into understanding the past, including the connections between Neolithic people who left behind ...

An archaeology project is to make its final excavation of a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site in Orkney next year. The complex of buildings at Ness of Brodgar was discovered in 2003, and a series of ...

From Norman and Tudor castles to Neolithic forts, stone circles and burial chambers, Ireland and Britain contain a wealth of sites that represent most stages in the development of European ...

These indirect impacts of conflict could have caused significant, long-term population fluctuations in non-state societies, such as in Neolithic Europe (circa 7000 BC to 3000 BC), according to the ...

It once had a reputation for stag and hen dos, which it wasn't overly happy with, but it is now one of the most wonderful ...

The Neolithic farmers and herders who built a massive stone chamber in southern Spain nearly 6,000 years ago possessed a good rudimentary grasp of physics, geometry, geology and architectural ...