In the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around the same time, a new type of stone monument, arranged in the ...

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the monument’s builders must have had advanced seafaring technology ...

Stonehenge was built in several different phases between about 3000 and 2000 BC, starting with a large circular ditch and bank together with a circle of 2-metre-high bluestones just inside.

Monkeys in South America entered the Stone Age 3,000 years ago, using carefully chosen stone tools to hammer and dig, researchers have found. The capuchin monkeys’ chosen implements highlight how ...

The ships sank during different eras, including the Classical period (460 BC), the Hellenistic period (100 BC to 100 AD), the Roman years (200 BC - 300 AD) and the Byzantine period (800 - 900 AD).

c. 4500 BC - 3500 BC Farming techniques are introduced from the continent. Before circa 4500 BC, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (Early and Middle Stone Age) people were nomads, hunting and gathering ...

Stonehenge's construction began around 3000 BC and continued over several phases. The bluestones, made from fine-grained sandstone, were transported from the Preseli Hills in west Wales, about 140 ...

HAMMER TIME Stone pounding implements such as these, shown from different angles, provide evidence that capuchin monkeys in Brazil have practiced different types of tool use over the last 3,000 years.

A mysterious 7-inch-long stone found in 1973 on private land near Charlotte, North Carolina, may be a wood-cutting tool from the 3,000 to 1,000 BC period, state archaeologists say.