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Then, towards the end of the Stone Age, a new idea began to spread across Britain… farming. SHEEP BLEAT Instead of following or tracking animals over long distances, people began to settle and ...

Recent discoveries reveal surprising similarities between Stone Age people and us. They crafted musical instruments, built ...

In 1988, archaeologists uncovered the grave of a Mesolithic woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley 10,500 years ago. At ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown early farming society from the Neolithic period, otherwise known as the New Stone Age, a study reports. Research conducted at the ...

Farming in the Stone Age By 3500BC people in many parts of Britain had set up farms. They made clearings in the forest and built groups of houses, surrounded by fields.

In Ireland's Neolithic period, which lasted from about 3900 to 2500 B.C., people built "megalithic monuments" — large stone structures that contained human bones and cremated remains.

Stone Age people might have crossed the Mediterranean on wooden canoes, navigating from island to island by sight. ... even while farming imported sheep, goats and cattle.

At the end of the Stone Age, some 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwest Europe plummeted, and farming communities evaporated.

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said. “There are lots of different steps in ...

The Neolithic, or New Stone Age, involved the adoption of farming and animal domestication in place of a roving hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The Neolithic decline population crash in Northern Europe ...

Stone Age builders had engineering savvy, finds study of 6,000-year-old monument. A survey of the Dolmen of Menga suggests that the stone tomb’s Neolithic builders had an understanding of ...