The UK has a lot of old things in it, which often results in jokes like a Brit telling an American: "My local pub is older than your country." This is true in a lot of cases. But some places are ...

Nestled in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Skara Brae is a prehistoric village that has intrigued archaeologists and ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

“Whether someone in the settlement was a hatmaker or someone ... a ‘lost priory’ in Perth and Orkney’s Neolithic Ness of Brodgar.

The Unesco World Heritage-listed Heart of Neolithic Orkney blows Stonehenge out of ... the vast Ness of Brodgar settlement and the vaulting stones at Stenness, themselves part of a prehistoric ...

Near the village of Sumburgh lies a 4,000-year-old Neolithic settlement which Vikings and medieval farmers ... You might just recognize it from the James Bond film Skyfall. The Orkney Islands are some ...

MOSCOW, 15 April (BelTA - TV BRICS) - An archaeological expedition has started the third season of excavations at Chogha Golan, the largest Neolithic settlement in Iran, located at the foot of the ...

"Agriculture and settlement patterns were likely shaped by necessity, not just innovation." The paper also highlights how Neolithic settlements in the southern Levant clustered over thick reworked ...

For more on the Neolithic Revolution, go to "Last Stand of the Hunter-Gatherers?" Remnants of Neolithic settlement on alluvial soil, Motza Valley, Israel ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...