Around 6,000 years ago, instead of spending all their time hunting and gathering ... the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as setting up farms ...

The study indicates that some grinding stones were withdrawn from the domestic context practically new, others in the middle ...

The route they discovered didn’t just track migration — it revealed pockets of resistance to the Neolithic revolution, as well as signs of sea-faring derring-do. During that period, starting around 12 ...

Most of the individuals genetically sequenced from these monuments were more closely biologically related to each other than to the wider Irish population at this time. This means they formed a ...