Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The site is important for many reasons, including the degree of preservation of ancient land surfaces, the impressive total extent of the palaeolandscape beyond the quarries (over 26 km wide), its huge quantity of well-preserved animal bones, its numerous flint artifacts, and its hominin fossils that are among some of the most ancient found yet in Europe.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...
Bush Barrow is a site of the early British Bronze Age Wessex culture (c. 2000 BC), at the western end of the Normanton Down Barrows cemetery in Wiltshire, England. It is among the most important sites of the Stonehenge complex, having produced some of the most spectacular grave goods in Britain.
The style of stone tool found at Ranis has also been discovered elsewhere across Europe, from Moravia and eastern Poland to the British Isles, according to the studies. ... cave near Ranis from ...
Now, research building on the two previous studies suggests that Stonehenge may have been reconstructed in England around 2620 to 2480 BC to help unify ancient Britons as newcomers arrived from ...
DNA analysis found that bones deposited in the most elaborate chamber belonged to a man whose parents were first-degree relatives, possibly brother and sister. In history, such inbreeding was usually only found in royal dynasties headed by "god-kings", such as the pharaohs of ancient Egypt , who married among themselves to keep the royal ...
Dartmoor kistvaens, burial tombs or cists found in Dartmoor in Devon. Fairy Toot, oval barrow. Five Marys, group of round barrows in Dorset. Julliberrie's Grave, unchambered earthen Neolithic long barrow. King's Quoit, Neolithic burial chamber in Pembrokeshire. Lanyon Quoit, dolmen. Lugbury Long Barrow, Neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire.
An ancient burial site filled with human and animal bones was recently unearthed in Poland, officials said. The site was found during road construction in Srebrzyszcze, a village along the Poland ...