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Did Stonehenge's Builders Use Ball Bearings?

(Nov. 24) -- When it comes to mystical places on Earth, few can rival Stonehenge -- the enigmatic stone monument sitting on the Salisbury Plain of southern England. And now comes a new theory that suggests the Neolithic builders who erected Stonehenge may have used ball bearings to move the giant stones into...

Archaeologist: Beer Sowed the Seeds of Civilization

(Nov. 10) -- Over the years, beer has brought countless people together. But researchers now say beer isn't just responsible for sparking new friendships and relationships -- it might also be responsible for the rise of human civilization. Archaeologists believe that when Stone Age farmers in Southwest Asia began...

Was Civilization Just an Excuse to Get Drunk?

(Nov. 9) -- Anthropologists and archaeologists have been arguing for decades over why human beings ever moved from the idyllic lives of hunter gatherers to the painful toil of sedentary agricultural life. But some scientists have come up with an explanation that just about anyone can understand: We just wanted to get...

Archaeologists Discover Stonehenge's Timber Twin

LONDON (July 22) -- Stonehenge, that ancient and mysterious circle of giant obelisks on England's Salisbury Plain, may once have had a nearby wooden "twin," according to a pioneering new archaeological survey. "The idea of finding something as significant and dramatic as this monument, so close to Stonehenge, is just...

Background on Neolithic

The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, νέος (nèos, "new") and λίθος (lithos, "stone"): or New Stone era, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 cal.

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