Discovered by chance in 1850, Skara Brae is the best-preserved Neolithic village in Europe. Located on the coast of Orkney, Scotland, this 5,000-year-old site is a fascinating reminder of a long ...

A small mound on Turkey's Anatolian plateau has yielded the remains of early communities that provide a long-sought link between the prehistoric cultures of the Near East and Europe ...

Excavations at Nea Nikomedeia in northern Greece have uncovered a community of 8,000 years ago. Its remains suggest that agriculture and animal husbandry came to Europe earlier than has been supposed ...

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the ...

They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of ...

Archaeologist Heath, author of Warfare in Prehistoric Britain and other works, takes on the long-standing claim that Neolithic peoples were peaceful agriculturalists living in harmony with nature.

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