4,900 years ago, a 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 ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.

"We investigated Masseria Candelaro because we are studying how prehistoric people interacted with the dead between the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age in Italy," study lead author Jess ...

From the get-go the antics that impressed audiences during the sexual revolution – oh ... Now they feel like the peccadilloes of a lost Neolithic tribe. Most of the plot leads to a lopsided ...

This advancement allowed the transformation of flooded tropical savannahs into highly productive fields, thereby driving the development of the "Neolithic Revolution" in the Amazon, understood as the ...