It gleams with a glaze of ice that is left undefrosted to protect ... and estimated it to be 4,000 years old—a relic of the Neolithic age—did anyone begin to comprehend what an astonishing ...

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago ... flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried ...

Ice cores are long cylinders drilled from ... providing fascinating insights into the ritual practices of Europeans in the Neolithic (or New Stone Age) and a prehistoric environmental crisis.

But Childe’s theory fell out of favor after geologists and botanists discovered that the climate after the ice age was actually wetter, not drier. Another explanation for the Neolithic ...

the environment of the sparse Middle Stone Age or Mesolithic communities which inhabited Wales in the millennia following the retreat of the ice. The Neolithic or New Stone Age (4000-2400 BC ...