Two newly uncovered stone circles in the windswept Dartmoor uplands of southwest England are providing fresh insights into Neolithic history. These ancient monuments, estimated to be around 5,000 ...

ORKNEY, SCOTLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a final excavation will be conducted at the Ness of Brodgar this summer. Discovered in 2003, the six-acre site is located on an isthmus in the ...

Neolithic people in Great Britain were really into building big things; the British Isles are studded with ancient hill forts, monumental graves and ritual sites. Now, a new study suggests another ...

You don’t need to look far on these islands to find Stone Age burial sites, but the places where Guernsey’s first inhabitants ...

The Stones of Stenness on Orkney are among the most striking Neolithic monuments in Britain and may represent the oldest henge monument in the British Isles. Dating to around 3350 BCE, the site once ...

Mike Parker Pearson is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Neolithic British Isles, Madagascar and the archaeology of death and burial.

The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ancient humans ...