Archaeologists from University College London and elsewhere have examined a molar tooth of a female Bos taurus (cow) discovered at Stonehenge.
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The Altar Stone, a 6-ton sandstone megalith that sits at the center of Stonehenge’s iconic stone circle, was sourced at least 750 km from its current...
Scholars have long seen in the monumental composition of Stonehenge evidence for prehistoric time-reckoning — a Neolithic calendar. Exactly how such...
A team of experts from Wessex Archaeology has analyzed four ancient chalk plaques from the Stonehenge region in southern England. Their results place the...
A research team led by University College London archaeologists has discovered a 5,000-year-old dismantled stone circle in west Wales, close to Stonehenge’s...
Lipid (fat) residues identified in Grooved Ware pottery from Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge, have been interpreted as evidence for large-scale feasting...
Geologists and archaeologists have long known that the builders of Stonehenge made use of two main types of stone: a silcrete, known as ‘sarsen,’ was...
Enormous standing stones at Stonehenge are of sarsen, a local sandstone, but the smaller ones, known as bluestones, came from two prehistoric quarries...
Archaeologists from Germany and the United Kingdom have revealed insights into cuisine choices and eating habits at Durrington Walls, a Neolithic settlement...
Using remote sensing techniques and geophysical surveys, archaeologists from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project have discovered the remains of a...
A submerged, 39-foot-long (12 m) monolith has been discovered in the waters off the coast of Sicily at a depth of about 130 feet (40 m).
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Ido Wachtel, a PhD student and an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology, has discovered a 5,000-year-old crescent-shaped...
British researchers, reporting in the journal Time & Mind: the Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, may have cracked the mystery of why...
After 10 years of archaeological investigations, researchers from the Stonehenge Riverside Project (SRP) have concluded that Stonehenge was built as a...
An international team of archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham has discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment...
