Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices ...

According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes ...

Ice core analyses from Greenland and Antarctica reveal high levels of sulfur from a massive volcanic eruption approximately 4 ...

This discovery about a volcanic eruption in the Neolithic period has prompted archaeologists to reevaluate “Sun stones” found ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it ...

About 4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and ...

A new study by archaeologist Xingtao Wei and his colleagues, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, ...

Volcanic eruptions shaped the destinies of ancient European societies, leading to dramatic cultural shifts and the emergence ...

The Céide Fields, one of the most important and extensive Stone Age ­monuments in the world, was ditched as a possible World ...

Professor of Archaeology at the University of Coimbra and research fellow at Liverpool University George Nash explores this ...

Archaeologists uncover 614 stone plaques in Denmark’s Bornholm Island, linking Neolithic sacrifices to a volcanic eruption in ...