Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMMAN — Located in northern Jordan, Basatin is a site where around 900 shreds were diagnosed from the Late Neolithic. These ...