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

How did Neolithic Britons undertake such an epic feat of transportation? In a paper published this past December in Archaeology International , the researchers suggest possible methods and routes.

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 ...

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?” ...

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. According ...

“Humans have always had a fascination with finding the perfect rock, and maybe the Neolithic Britons are the same, so their motivations are lost to time.” The researchers said that as a next ...

“Humans have always had a fascination with finding the perfect rock, and maybe the Neolithic Britons were the same,” said Anthony Clarke, a doctoral student at Curtin University in Australia ...

Scholars estimate it traveled 465 miles or more to reach Salisbury. CC How did Neolithic Britons undertake such an epic feat of transportation? In a paper published this past December in ...