Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.

Weighing 6.5 tons and transported to Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago, a new study pegs the Altar Stone's origin to Scotland ...

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Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

Work has started on a project to unearth the secrets of a prehistoric ritual site in Cornwall. Described by experts as the county's "ancient sacred heart", Castilly Henge is believed to have been ...

The study, published in Science Advances, analyzed 82 humans from the Alsace region (around 4300–4150 cal BC) and found statistically significant chemical differences between those treated “normally” ...

Central Germany is among the regions where, as early as the mid-6th millennium BC, farmers displaced the Mesolithic ...

A new study has revealed the reasons for particularly brutal Neolithic murders and mutilations. A group of researchers recently conducted isotopic analyses on Neolithic remains found over a decade ago ...

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