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 ...

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 ...

The solitary moors of Bodmin have an ethereal, timeless quality which makes it fitting that they host many fascinating ...

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 ...

In Britain, during the Neolithic Period (characterized by the introduction of agriculture) and the Bronze Age, which dated ...

In contrast, other prehistoric megaliths across Britain and Europe tend to be ... For example, the authors point out that dwellings in the Neolithic village that housed the workers who built ...