Archaeologists in Chintamani taluk, Karnataka, have discovered 40 prehistoric sites, uncovering rock paintings from the ...

Archaeologists Unearth Rare Neolithic Settlement, Sheds Light on Civilization and Agricultural Practice In one of the most exciting archaeological finds, a group of researchers has revealed an ...

Economic inequality appears to have been rare and transient among humans during the Neolithic period (that is, from about 11,000 to 5,000 years ago). But in the following period, economic inequality ...

With From season 3 now available in the UK, everyone has been left stunned by that explosive ending. Thankfully, the show has been renewed for season 4, with that season 3 ending giving us a hint ...

Credit: National Museum of Denmark Volcanic eruptions shaped the destinies of ancient European societies, leading to dramatic cultural shifts and the emergence of sun worship practices among Neolithic ...

Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised patterns and sun motifs. They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. New evidence suggests ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA—According to a Phys.org report, archaeologist Xingtao Wei of Zhengzhou University and his colleagues analyzed residues preserved on three 8,000-year-old pottery tripods ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

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 can now show that these ...