The saddle quern, a hand tool used for grinding grain, lay hidden beneath layers of Early Neolithic pottery shards. This site, dating back to 3600–3200 BC, predates Skara Brae and suggests even ...

Archaeologists believe fingerprints left on a piece of Neolithic pottery belonged to two young men. A single print was first discovered in April on the fragment of a clay vessel unearthed at ...

The Neolithic revolution describes a monumental ... wonderfully decorated pieces of pottery and painted plaster reliefs. Most of this art depicts wild animals, with one relief showing vultures ...

This Neolithic stone axe was found within a prehistoric ... The axe was deposited with 5 more axes, numerous flint tools, pottery and a large collection of barley grains and crab apple remains ...

Dr Nick Overton Follow me on X (opens in new window) Excavations around the entrance, and within the passageway and chamber recovered Neolithic pottery and stone tools, including a piece of worked ...

Liverpool John Moores University, UK, and the Polish ... from the river. Nubian Neolithic archaeological sites in the region hint at a shared material culture of pottery, personal adornments ...

New evidence suggests that a volcanic eruption around 2,900 BCE had devastating impacts on Neolithic societies in Northern Europe ... These artifacts were found in ditches alongside broken pottery, ...