Scattered across the forests and rock shelters of Central Kentucky are strange stone depressions known as hominy holes. These features are often overlooked or mistaken for natural erosion, yet they ...

Far below the waves off the coast of Brittany, France, divers have mapped a massive stone barrier that should not exist, at least not according to the standard story of early European prehistory.

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved monoliths scattered across high-altitude volcanic slopes and pastures where no ...

Making a truly flat surface is a modern engineering feat, and not a small one. Even making something straight without ...

Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...

Stonehenge’s central stone came from northern Scotland, more than 600 miles away from the monument, according to a new analysis of its geochemistry. It is commonly accepted that many of the rocks that ...

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...

Following a local’s theory, archaeologists excavated the Farley Moor standing stone and found a larger 3,700-year-old ceremonial site. Photo from Time Team, shared by Forestry England In a forest of ...

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