Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) unearthed the remains of an 8,000-year-old rectangular dwelling at the site of Svinjarička Čuka in Serbia. The discovery challenges ...

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

The earliest farmers in France knew a thing or two about scouting a location for a room with a view. The evidence: a recent discovery of a home from one of France’s first Neolithic settlements, which ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

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. But they ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...