In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual shadows. Looking closely at the patterns of plants in a number of fields, he ...

The find, announced by the team working at the Siwa site in Lintao, marks a significant breakthrough in understanding this Neolithic civilization that thrived 5,000 years ago. The settlement, ...

Archaeologists unearth “extremely rare” early Neolithic village on the French Riviera, marking the human transition from a nomadic existence to an agricultural society.

The Neolithic Natufians came first, in around 10500 BC, and settled at a freshwater spring to the north-west of the sea – now known as the city of Jericho. Between 6000 and 3500 BC the water ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) AMMAN - The majority of known Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlements are ... identified within the Jordan Valley include Jericho, Dhra, Wadi Faynan 16, and Salibiya.