Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

National Museum of Denmark Over the years, a variety of mysterious engraved stone plaques have ... They suspect Neolithic farmers may have carved and ceremonially buried them after a volcanic ...

The virtual absence of figurative imagery in the archaeological record of the north-west European Neolithic highlights the exceptional nature of the stone plaques from Vasagård.” The sun stones ...

The complex featured paved walkways, carved stonework ... Europe’s most complete Neolithic village, included stone hearths, beds, and cupboards. Sometimes you don’t even need to do that.

Carved stone balls are mysterious and uniquely Scottish objects. They are thought to date from the late Neolithic period, more than 4000 years ago. We do not know what they were for or how they ...

It was originally proposed that the stone carvings of the sun were buried ... The eruption would been devastating for the Neolithic peoples of northern Europe. “If you don't have the harvest ...

Scientists discovered the first of these small, carved stone artifacts in 1995 at a Neolithic site called Rispebjerg on the island of Bornholm, about 112 miles (180 kilometers) southeast of ...