Neolithic man first discovered the principles of beauty in art, stated Sir Herbert Road in the second Charles Eliot Norton lecture at New Lecture Hall last night. Completely abstract geometrical ...

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.

Most of this art depicts wild animals, with one relief showing vultures attacking headless humans. Gorgeous. Don’t worry, no prehistoric zombies here! Like many Neolithic communities ...

A centuries-old belief that the 3,500-year-old tombs of Brú na Bóinne were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society ... to belong to young woman’ who died violentlyOpens in ...