In a find that provides insights into the remarkable abilities of these ancient humans, new research studying the chemical ...

In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic ... Ring of Brodgar—Scotland’s biggest stone circle.

examined two slivers of the Altar Stone and determined it came from Scotland's Orcadian Basin. So it was either "dragged 500 miles or more overland by our Neolithic forebears, before the invention ...

On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic home is open to the air ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age ... Mines are known in Northern Ireland, Scotland and East Anglia, but the majority of flint ...

One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be ... Then the whole structure was sealed in clay and stone and covered over by a circular mound of earth ...

Views are being sought on the future of one of Scotland’s seven World ... that form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney (Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge, Maeshowe ...

“It wasn’t any old stone ... with Scotland’s west coast, but the connections go much farther. Orkney seems to have been a cultural and technological innovator during the Neolithic.