“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.

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 ...

The artifacts uncovered during the excavation are from the Neolithic period, one of the most pivotal revolutions in human history. Animal remains found during the dig allude to Neolithic husbandry ...

A Neolithic settlement discovered in marshes in northeast France has "no equivalent" in Europe, according to archaeologists. The settlement at the vast site of Marais de Saint-Gond was uncovered ...

Neolithic people built grave mounds to bury their dead. People stored the bones of the dead in large graves known as long barrows. These graves were built from stone and covered with a mound of earth.

A neolithic burial chamber in Carnac, France (Mark Cartwright/Creative Commons) (CN) — Neolithic engineers may not have been given enough credit for their ingenuity and building knowledge finds a new ...

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6400 to c. 3600 bce. In Gordon Childe’s terminology this is the era between the revolutions: it postdates the “Agricultural Revolution” of the early Neolithic and predates the “Urban Revolution” of ...

Blessed with fertile soil and a mild climate, Orkney was a land of plenty for Neolithic homesteaders. Agricultural wealth helped give them the freedom to pursue grand architectural dreams.

MARDIN PROVINCE, TURKEY—According to a Newsweek report, a 12,000-year-old burial uncovered at the site of a Neolithic settlement near the Tigris River called Çemka Höyük may hold the remains ...

Subsequent research, carried out by the Museum of Huesca and the University of Zaragoza, confirmed its occupation in the ancient Neolithic period, more than 7,000 years ago. However, until now ...