This summer, the University of Reading Archaeology Field School excavated one of the most extraordinary sites we have ever had the pleasure of investigating. The site is an Early Neolithic long barrow ...

Research published in the Internet Archaeology Journal found that the pits are man-made and were constructed during the late ...

Last year, researchers announced that they had made one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in British history. Just 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the world famous monument of Stonehenge, ...

An ancient Neolithic structure known as a cursus, believed to be the only complete such monument found in Britain, has been discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Arran. A team of archaeologists, led by ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that could change our understanding of Neolithic Britain. The Flagstones burial site, located in Dorset, England, has been re-dated to approximately 3,200 BC ...

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has uncovered intriguing new insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were ...

Thousands of years ago, Neolithic humans in southern Britain constructed some of the most enduring evidence of early civilizations: enormous megaliths, including Stonehenge, used by generations of ...

There’s much we don’t know about the Neolithic culture that built Stonehenge. But there’s one thing archaeologists can say for certain: they certainly feasted on pork. A new study suggests their pig ...

A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by archaeologists. The researchers found the previously ...

ANTH copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. "The 'western seaways' are an arc of sea extending from the Channel Islands in the south, through the Isles of Scilly around to Orkney ...

Experts are continuing to investigate a ring of 20 Stonehenge pits that may mark Britain's largest Neolithic structure.

YORK, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that calcified plaque scraped from 6,000-year-old teeth has provided early evidence for dairy consumption among Britain’s Neolithic farmers. Traces of dairy products ...