Weighing 6.5 tons and transported to Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago, a new study pegs the Altar Stone's origin to Scotland ...
Archaeologists have uncovered the origins of the Bell Beaker people who migrated to Britain and replaced all of the Neolithic ...
After analysing over 700 zircon and apatite grains they found that glaciers likely didn’t extend to parts of England as far south as Salisbury Plain during the last ice age. People, not glaciers, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Follett returns with an epic on building Stonehenge in 2500 BCE. (photo credit: Chedko. Via Shutterstock) After analysing over ...
New Curtin University research has delivered the strongest scientific evidence yet that people – not glaciers – transported Stonehenge’s famous bluestones to the ancient site. The study challenges one ...
Stonehenge, one of the most examined prehistoric structures globally, is located on Salisbury Plain in southern England. The long-standing debate has continued for decades regarding whether glaciers ...
We can stop crediting glaciers—the people had the power to move those massive stones.
About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...
One of archaeology’s longest-running arguments may finally be put to rest. New research suggests the massive bluestones at Stonehenge were not dumped on Salisbury Plain by ice-age glaciers, but ...
Around 2400 BC, the people who had built Stonehenge and other massive Neolithic monuments effectively vanished. Previous ancient DNA studies showed that they were replaced by newcomers with Steppe ...
Across the wind-scoured plateaus of Tigray and the lush hills of Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia preserves a silent, stone-hewn archive unlike almost any other on Earth.