The construction of complex megalithic tombs was a hallmark of the Neolithic period in Europe, yet this practice seems to have ceased rather abruptly at the end of the fourth millennium BCE. Numerous ...

A circular stone plaza in Peru is one of the earliest known megalithic structures in the Americas, archaeologists have revealed. Located at the archaeological site of Callacpuma, 550km north of Lima, ...

A newly documented stone wall lying beneath the Atlantic off western France is forcing archaeologists to rethink when Europeans first mastered large-scale building in stone. The structure, dated to ...

A team, including UW anthropologists, works at the site of a circular plaza that was built around 4,750 years ago in the Cajamarca Basin of northern Peru. (Jason Toohey Photo) Two University of ...

A Swedish researcher has dated many of Europe’s famous megalithic sites, such as Newgrange, to find their design comes from one specific region. It seems timely that just as a significant number of ...

Ordinarily, it is the task of archaeologists to painstakingly sift through the ground in pursuit of the past. A recent project in central Germany, however, has done something altogether different.

It is also considered “one of the earliest examples of monumental, megalithic ceremonial architecture in the Americas.” In order to date the construction of the circular plaza, archaeologists proposed ...

A groundbreaking discovery shedding light on the megalithic period has emerged in Koodol in Kinanur-Karinthalam panchayat, Kasaragod, where archaeology enthusiasts and historians have unearthed ...

Archeologists have discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden. The kin relations can be traced for more than ten generations and ...

Prakasam district was once an indologists’ delight with numerous megalithic sites throwing light on Andhra people’s culture during the first millennium B.C. as these monuments have weathered the storm ...