Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

The complex featured paved walkways, carved stonework ... Europe’s most complete Neolithic village, included stone hearths, beds, and cupboards. Sometimes you don’t even need to do that.

providing fascinating insights into the ritual practices of Europeans in the Neolithic (or New Stone Age) and a prehistoric environmental crisis. The first discovery of the so-called sun stones ...

The virtual absence of figurative imagery in the archaeological record of the north-west European Neolithic highlights the exceptional nature of the stone plaques from Vasagård.” The sun stones ...

One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney. The builders of the chambered cairn known as Maes Howe ...

Carved stone balls are mysterious and uniquely Scottish objects. They are thought to date from the late Neolithic period, more than 4000 years ago. We do not know what they were for or how they ...

Skara Brae's remarkable survival through the ages is thanks to the design of the original builders who buried the stone-slab walls up to roof level in clay soil and waste material in order to provide ...

the subsequent climate changes and the discovery of the ritual sun stone sacrifices. "It is reasonable to believe that the Neolithic people on Bornholm wanted to protect themselves from further ...

Archaeologists discovered one of the oldest Neolithic settlements in France at ... archaeologists identified two parallel stone walls wrapping around the area, although the site is eroded.

It was originally proposed that the stone carvings of the sun were buried ... The eruption would been devastating for the Neolithic peoples of northern Europe. “If you don't have the harvest ...