In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

The finds feature in the latest series of BBC Two's Digging for Britain ... evidence of Neolithic period settlement has been uncovered on the banks of the Foyle. A 6,000-year-old village was ...

The recent discovery that one of Stonehenge’s stones originated in Scotland supports a theory that the stone circle was built ...

They began to set up farms. These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as setting up farms and permanent homes, they also built ...

The ancient population of Britain was almost completely replaced by newcomers about 4,500 years ago, a study shows. The findings mean modern Britons trace just a small fraction of their ancestry ...

In contrast, other prehistoric megaliths across Britain and Europe tend to be made from rocks transported from an average ...

Archaeologists date the village, called Skara Brae ... of grooved pottery that became almost universal throughout Neolithic Britain had its origin in Orkney. It may well be that rich and ...

New research has shed light on how Stonehenge may have served to unify Britain’s early farmers as newcomers from Europe began ...

During the winter, Neolithic people would gather near Stonehenge at the village of Durrington Walls ... making it unique among over 900 stone circles in Britain, suggests that the stone circle ...