Neolithic engineers built megalithic monument with stones that weighed as much as two jumbo jets. Story by Katie Hunt, CNN • ...

Neolithic culture was less sexist than previously thought — according to researchers’ shocking finds at burial sites By . Shane Galvin. Published Nov. 29, 2024, 8:42 p.m. ET.

He emphasised that he was not suggesting the Neolithic symbols had the same meanings as Shang characters they resembled. Professor Keightley added: "It's a puzzle and an anomaly; [the symbols] are ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists from the University of ...

Evidence from the site indicates that Neolithic people deposited the stones en masse over a short period—possibly in a single event—around 2900 B.C.

Archaeologists discovered the curious carvings on built-in benches within a Neolithic (or New Stone Age) building in the Urfa region. Measuring roughly 2.5 to 3 feet (0.7 to 0.9 meter) tall and 12 ...

A new study shows how a 5,600-year-old monument in what’s now Spain was erected. Each stone of the Menga Dolmen is many times bigger than Stonehenge’s megaliths.

The Neolithic saw the dawn of agriculture and animal husbandry some 6,000 years ago. In what is now Valais, Switzerland, the type and amount of food people ate was the same regardless of sex or ...

The Neolithic period, also known as the Late Stone Age, began 10,000 years ago in what is today Turkey. ... “Because from your writing desk you can’t say anything. ...

Archaeologists found ancient tools in Spain, revealing the daily life and agricultural practices of early Neolithic societies from over 7,000 years ago. Search. ... When she’s not writing, ...

The phrase “Neolithic Revolution” was coined in the 1920s by the Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe, one of the 20th century’s leading prehistorians.