The construction of complex megalithic tombs was a hallmark of the Neolithic period in Europe, yet this practice seems to have ceased rather abruptly at the end of the fourth millennium BCE. Numerous ...

A stone tomb near Paris held generations of dead, but the people buried there did not all belong to the same world. That is ...

The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations.

The findings suggest a sharp reduction in the local population followed by the arrival of entirely new groups from the south. The burial site itself spans the period from approximately 3200 to 2450 BC ...

The first Neolithic people in north-west Europe often constructed chambered tombs to inter their remains. Sometimes, these individuals were biologically related to each other, but surviving remains ...

Skara Brae in Orkney is one of the most complete Neolithic villages ever found, with stone houses, furniture, passageways, ...

Skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence in Neolithic Europe : an introduction / Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger -- The placement of the feathers : violence among sub-boreal foragers from Gotland ...

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