Agh - I missed yesterday’s #StandingStoneSunday here, a shameful day late, is one of Avebury’s finest. #avebury #neolithic #Wiltshire Photo taken last November.
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'Extreme exploitation': Spanish archaeologists find signs of war cannibalism from 5,700 years ago.
Deep within El Mirador Cave in northern Spain, researchers have uncovered bone-chilling evidence of human cannibalism dating back around 5,700 years.
Euronews · 'Extreme exploitation': Spanish archaeologists find signs of war cannibalism from 5,700 years ago.
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Have a look at CerAfIm (Céramique Africaine Imprimée), a website for identifying and classifying decorations on Saharan ceramics
https://www.lampea.cnrs.fr/cerafim/
#TheHurlers #StoneCircle #BodminMoor #Cornwall A triple circle from the late #Neolithic or early #BronzeAge Legend says that the stones are petrified #Hurling players struck down for having a bit of fun on a Sunday because #god can't abide that type of thing.
For #FindsFriday a rare fragment of a #Neolithic patterned cloak made of lime bast, dating 2700-2500 BC.
Found in Maur-Schifflände, Switzerland.
On display at Landesmuseum Zurich.
Stonehenge : Origins and Transport of the Bluestones [pdf 6pp] #Stonehenge #bluestones #megalithic #neolithic https://www.academia.edu/143320875/Comparative_Analysis_of_the_Brian_John_Boulder_at_Craig_Rhos_y_felin_and_the_Newall_Boulder_from_Stonehenge_Implications_for_the_Origins_and_Transport_of_the_Bluestones
www.academia.eduComparative Analysis of the "Brian John Boulder" at Craig Rhos-y-felin and the "Newall Boulder" from Stonehenge: Implications for the Origins and Transport of the BluestonesThe transport of Stonehenge's bluestones has long sparked debate in British prehistory, with contrasting hypotheses attributing their presence to either Neolithic human transport or glacial deposition. This paper compares two critical pieces of
Im Karpatenbecken wurde 5000 Jahre lang der Anhäufung von materiellem Reichtum entgegen gewirkt, so dass gesellschaftliche #Ungleichheit niedrig gehalten wurde. Unterschiede zwischen einzelnen Gruppen innerhalb der Gesellschaft werden mit diesen Daten allerdings nicht untersucht.
In the Carpathian Basin the accumulation of material wealth has been minimzed for 5000 years keeping societal #inequality low. Within group differences are not analysed.
#Archaeology #Neolithic
A new study based on extensive data and recent excavations such as the one pictured in Békés-Várdomb (Hungary) uses the example of Southeast Europe to challenge widely held theories about the emergence of social hierarchies in prehistory. It has been published now at #ScienceAdvances:
https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/138-roots-inequality-carpathianbasin
#archaeology #carpathianbasin #inequality #Neolithic #BronzeAge
Spot illustration of a cromlech by Lawrence Scarfe for his 1940s book 'Three Ghosts'. It doesn't appear to be relevant to any of the three stories in the book, so we will just have to assume that Scarfe liked #Neolithic landscapes. But then, who doesn't? #TombTuesday #illustration #booksky #artsky
Wow!
#Archaeology News Online Magazine: Reconstructions reveal faces of #Neolithic sisters buried 6,000 years ago
#History
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/reconstructions-reveal-faces-of-neolithic-sisters/
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Some Monmouthshire chambered tomb action for today's #StandingStoneSunday
Gaer Llwyd ('Grey Fort') Neolithic chambered tomb near Usk. In folklore the tomb was the result of a game of megalithic quoits between Twm Sion Catti and the Devil.
Visited June 2012, when there was a donkey living in the field.
It took a little while to get around to the artwork for this one, but we finally have the next instalment of the History of Science: The Menga Dolmen.
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/menga-dolmen/
#scicomm #history #historyofscience #mengadolmen #neolithic
Matilda's Lab · Menga DolmenA glimpse of the technological feats that the human race was capable of over 1000 years before the construction of the pyramids.
Lived here for 30 years but only noticed this stone on the flower bed yesterday. Signs of repeated working? A lithic core?
#flintknapping #lithics #Palaeolithic #Neolithic #Mesolithic #workedstone #workedflint #archaeology
The Neolithic people of Britain were a nomadic group of cultures that entered the country from the Dutch region of northern Europe from before 7000 years ago until after 6000 years ago.
They came on foot, across a land bridge that is now shallow water between Holland and East Anglia, in England.
These people brought with them a suite of technologies, including pottery, domesticated animals, landscape structures, economic systems, community activities, timber joinery, structural engineering, and small-scale industries.
They had boats, but these were limited to dugout canoes for use on inland waters, lakes, harbours, and perhaps for crossing rivers.
In spite of their construction of cairns, these people retained their nomadic lifestyle, at least here in Orkney. They would cross from Caithness to South Ronaldsay along a strand made up of geologically soft sediments between those locations.
They came to Orkney every summer, returning to the south when the weather turned. As they crossed, from year to year, the people would have noted that the strand linking the two regions was narrowing. Sea levels were rising and coastal beaches were being eroded by strong tides.
At the very end of the 4th millennium BC, when sea-level wasn't yet high enough to cause concern, the summer solstice, and the Orkney Simmerdim, became an annual event, drawing hundreds of people to settle in temporary campsites around the Harray Loch.
While they were temporary residents, camping in Orkney, these huge groups built some of the monuments of the Orkney World Heritage Site. These include the Maeshowe Chambered Cairn, the Stones of Stenness, and the Ring of Brodgar.
As seasons progressed, and people returned to Orkney, to continue this great work, the sea rose, and whittled away at the strand that joined Caithness to Orkney.
At a critical point in the erosion of the strand between Caithness and Orkney, most people no longer returned to Orkney. Their campsite was abandoned just after 3000BC, and the stone circles that they were building remained, incomplete.
The very few people that remained in Orkney formed into small co-habiting communities, and built solid structures of stone and timber, with covered drains, and great windbreaks, or covered interconnecting passages.
These communities were based at Skara Brae, and the Ness of Brodgar.
In the middle of the 3rd millennium BC boats were being developed , and people were setting out to explore offshore islands, like Orkney.
When the mariners in their boats arrived in Orkney in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC it is possible that they met face-to-face with some of the surviving ancestors of the Neolithic Orcadian Founding Population.
https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html
#neolithic #Britain #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory #Brodgar #Stenness #north-sea #skarabrae #harrayloch #nessofbrodgar
orkneyriddler.blogspot.comNeolithic Migration to Orkney The Story of the Neolithic Migration to Orkney The Neolithic people of Britain were a nomadic group of cultures that entered the country ...
Another North-Walian obscurity for #StandingStoneSunday - Cwm Eigiau (possible) chambered tomb.
Speculatively identified as the remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb, nestled in Cwm Eigiau beneath the high ridges of Y Carneddau mountains.
Visited May 2012 on descent from Carnedd Llewelyn and Pen yr Helgi-Du.
4,500-year-old dog tooth–adorned bags unearthed in Germany reveal burial practices of Neolithic elites
Archaeological excavations near the German village of Krauschwitz in Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered a remarkable glimpse into ancient life: beautifully decorated bags—likely used as baby carriers—buried alongside women of the Corded Ware culture some 4,500 years ago...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/4500-year-old-dog-tooth-adorned-bags-germany/
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11,000-year-old feast in Iran’s Zagros Mountains reveals long-distance animal transport and early Neolithic social rituals
Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that ancient human communities in western Iran, over 11,000 years ago, were engaging in grand feasting rituals with wild animals transported from far-off places, well before the dawn of agriculture...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/11000-year-old-feast-in-irans-zagros-mountains/
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Stoney Littleton longbarrow, a neolithic tomb a few miles from #Bath #Somerset #UK.
Built between 3800-3400 BCE, with the larger stones thought to have been brought to the spot from at least 5 miles away.
#archaeology #neolithic #neolithicperiod #stoneage #megalithic #longbarrow #tomb
A selection of pottery vessels from the #Neolithic Schussenried culture, which was prevalent in southwestern Germany.
Aren't they beautiful?
Dating ca. 4,000 BC, From the Federseeried, Lake Federsee.
Archaeoethnologica: Beyond heterogeneities - Book / Além das Heterogeneidades - Livro
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