In a world where innovation was sweeping across Europe, the British Isles chose a path of solitude, crafting a unique legacy ...

Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

Neolithic Britons had maritime trade routes for cattle and heavy stone-grinding tools. Perhaps their vessels could even have floated a 13,000-pound megalith.

Neolithic Britons loved building things with big rocks, but the crannogs are unlike settlements or other monuments. “Who would want to spend all of their time putting stones in a loch?” ...

Neolithic Britons made early forms of gruel and stew by cooking wheat and cereals in pots, new research has suggested.. Chemical analysis of well-preserved pottery found in the waters surrounding ...

Early Neolithic Britons had a one in 20 chance of suffering a skull fracture at the hands of someone else and a one in 50 chance of dying from their injuries. Details were presented at a meeting of ...

With this new data, the team hopes to figure out how Neolithic Britons transported such a large piece of rock 466 miles and exactly where it came from in Scotland’s rugged northeast.

By analyzing grains of rock within Stonehenge's "altar stone," researchers determined it was most likely transported from present-day Scotland — more than 450 miles away.

One of the massive rocks at the mysterious Stonehenge structure in southern England may have been toted in from about 500 miles away—a remarkable feat to accomplish some 4,500 years ago.. Called ...

Neolithic Britons had maritime trade routes for cattle and heavy stone-grinding tools. Perhaps their vessels could even have floated a 13,000-pound megalith.