On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic home is open to the air ...

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labeled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically ...

The people in question were associated with the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia culture ... which comprised several houses and is unique as it contains human remains. The 50 human bone fragments ...

These Neolithic farmers probably lived at the nearby settlements of Barnhouse or Skara Brae and worshiped at the Stones of Stenness. Maes Howe was the house of ... many people have tried to ...

"That pulls people together ... buried their dead in or under their houses, just as Neolithic peoples did after them. The first documented agriculture began some 11,500 years ago in what Harvard ...

During the Irish Neolithic period, which lasted approximately from 3900 to 2500 BCE, people built megalithic monuments—large stone structures that contained human bones and cremated remains ...

In Ireland's Neolithic period, which lasted from about 3900 to 2500 B.C., people built "megalithic monuments" — large stone structures that contained human bones and cremated remains.

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

Elliott & Thompson has acquired The Seekers: Unearthing the Lost Neolithic People of Britain and Ireland by archaeologist, lecturer and author Jim Leary. Publishing director Sarah Rigby secured ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has overturned this idea. By integrating exciting new results from ancient DNA ...