Maeshowe (Maes Howe; Old Norse: Orkhaugr) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC.

In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to…

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Rendezvous with Neolithic time...

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Discovered in 1922, Dolmen de Soto is located in the municipality of Trigueros (Huelva), Iberia. It is one of the most important and best preserved megalithic monuments on the Peninsula. Construction must have taken place between the Neolithic and Bronze Age (3000-2500 BC).…

Morning everyone hope you are well. Yesterday's dawn breaking over the beautiful 5000 year old, Neolithic, Castlerigg Stone Circle with views towards the Helvellyn range. Have a great day. #LakeDistrict Keswick boot co

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-37% Neolithic Anatolian Farmers
-19% Western Steppe Harder
-15% Neolithic Iranian Farmers
-11% Caucasian Hunter-Gatherers
-10% Ancient Northeast Asian
-5% Neolithic Levant Farmers

A sheep standing among the standing stones of Callanish (or Calanais), Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The stones were erected about 5,000 years ago during the late Neolithic period.
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Pre-dynastic Egyptian ultrathin translucent GRANITE artifact.

'Predynastic Egypt'->At the end of prehistory, traditionally defined as the period from the final part of the Neolithic period beginning c. 6200 BC to the end of the Naqada III period c. 3000 BC.

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The thinker or sorrow, next to his partner. The famous Neolithic figurines from 5000-4600 BC, Hamangia culture were discovered in 1956 near Cernavodă, Constanța county; the first large Neolithic necropolis identified in Romania.

These Masterpieces of prehistoric artifacts are…

The Barnhouse Settlement, Orkney, Scotland.

The patch of land featured in the photograph is a Neolithic village which was inhabited between 3300-2600 BC. A small group of people originally inhabited it, and the settlement features several small, round houses with turf cladding…

This is one of the ancient marker stones nestled in the hills of Torphichen. And the Neolithic ritual site of cairnpapple. It is said that when the knights of Saint John occupied the local Preceptory they would guarantee safe passage for a fair trail to Edinburgh if you made it

#Dimini and #Sesklo : Greece’s Neolithic People May Have Destroyed Each Other dlvr.it/T6QK4b

Experimental ounan point 👇🏻 from blade. Typical arrowhead in the Epipaleolithic / Neolithic of North Africa🐄🌾. Archaeological remains from The Fayum, Egypt 🌅 (third picture).

Not the best picture but this shining Holly 🌲 growing by the edge of the Giants Ring neolithic site in Belfast is showing just why, other than sheltering kind fairy folk, that Holly with its light 🕯️ reflecting leaves was brought into homes generations ago.

Holly (Ilex…

Around 6000 years ago, humanity stood on the threshold of a transformative era known as the Neolithic period, marking the dawn of civilization as we understand it today. Across various regions of the world, from the fertile river valleys of Mesopotamia and the Nile to the vast…

Dating from the Neolithic and found in Britain, the Folkton Drums are three decorated chalk objects in the shape of drums or solid cylinders. These objects were found in a round barrow on Folkton Wold, near Filey in East Yorkshire in 1899 by Canon William Greenwell.
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Neolithic Stone hand axes. British Museum Stonehenge Exhibition. Photo by me.

Stanydale Temple - a Neolithic structure located near Walls on the west mainland of Shetland. While referred to as a ‘temple’ in the 1940s by Charles Calder who excavated the site, its purpose is unknown, though possibly ceremonial in function. #Prehistory #Shetland 📸 My own.

The ‘Face pot’ is an artifact from the Neolithic period, specifically from the Funnel Beaker Culture, which existed in Denmark around 3000 BC. This culture is named after its characteristic ceramics, beakers, and amphorae with funnel-shaped tops.

The ‘Face pot’ was discovered…

The Hindsgavl Dagger is a remarkable artifact from the Neolithic period. Found in 1886 on the Danish island of Fænø, which was then owned by Hindsgavl Manor on Funen, this dagger is one of the finest examples of a so-called fishtail flint dagger from the end of the Nordic Stone…

Maeshowe (Orkhaugr) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC.

In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney. More than a…