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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
Perhaps most remarkably, this sophisticated “proto-writing” system predates any others that are believed to have existed in the Near Eastern Neolithic period by at least 10,000 years.
“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 ...
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