Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

NARRATOR:People are no longer nomadic, now they are farmers building the first new permanent homes to live in. There are also new crops; barley and wheat. NEW STONE AGE MOTHER:We’ll have to ask ...

people in Britain started living in a new way. 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 ...

Detail of fossils embedded in Purbeck Marble Marc Benda was quick to point out that “there’s just one family quarrying this stone, and only two or three stone masons we could trust to work ...

A new discovery in southeastern Italy has provided ... This long-term practice indicates that these Stone Age people valued their ancestors' remains as more than mere symbols; they were active ...

This supports the idea that demographic changes played a role in the transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age, a time when new ... the enslavement of African people, and colonization wrought ...

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found ... at ...

According to the study, Stone Age farmers who depended on the ... the ceremonial burying of sun stones raises new questions about how Neolithic people interacted with the sun and how such ...