While excavating the route of a planned highway, archaeologists found a tusk and pelvis bone dating to the Ice Age.

The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the ...

A volcanic winter in the Neolithic. Ice core analyses from Greenland and Antarctica reveal high levels of sulfur from a massive volcanic eruption approximately 4,900 years ago.

Neolithic has announced that Neolithic Dawn will launch in Early Access on the Horizon Store for Meta Quest on June 27, 2025 ...

Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), the Mesolithic (12,000 to 10,000 years ago), and the Neolithic ...

Neolithic Dawn is scheduled for an Early Access release on the Horizon Store for Meta Quest on 27th June 2025. A Steam ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm.

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern Europe, according to a new study.

“It is reasonable to believe that the Neolithic people on Bornholm wanted to protect themselves from further deterioration of the climate by sacrificing sun stones,” said Iversen.

The Stone Age encompasses more than 95 percent of human history. It began at least 2.6 million years ago, when researchers found the earliest evidence of humans using stone tools, and lasted until ...

Mystery markings in 20,000-year-old drawings decoded for first time. Ice Age hunter-gatherers used markings of animals prey to store information about the behaviour of species crucial to their ...