Artificial terraces and pits where vessels were unearthed at the Xiatang Site in Xianju county, Zhejiang province. [Photo ...

Another major discovery is the Wuwangdun Tomb in Huainan City, Anhui Province. This tomb is the largest, highest-ranking, and ...

In Neolithic and Early Bronze Age times burials were often covered ... Wayland's Smithy: Also from southern England, this site consists of a long mound, originally with a boundary, or kerb, of small ...

Nestled within the valleys, hills and open fields of Wales, lies one of Western Europe's most remarkable collections of prehistoric Neolithic burial chambers. These ancient structures, dating from ...

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

Almost five millennia ago, hundreds of engraved, disc-shaped stones were deposited in a giant pit at the Neolithic Vasagård site on the small ... demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption ...

The majority of Welsh burial sites are located near the coast, a pattern Prof Nash attributes to the strategic advantages these areas offered. Proximity to the sea allowed Neolithic communities to ...

Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption ...