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Banpo Village, Xi'an, China
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Banpo Village, Xi'an, China

Neolithic Banpo Village, Xi'an, China, flourished 5,000-3,000 BCE.
Barnhouse Settlement
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Barnhouse Settlement

House Three at the Neolithic village of Barnhouse Settlement, Orkney, Scotland. Constructed and occupied 3300-2600 BCE.
Banpo Village Tomb
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Banpo Village Tomb

Banpo Village is a Neolithic site in the Yellow River Valley, east of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in the People's Republic of China. There have been 250 discovered and excavated with male and female buried in separate graveyards. The site was...
Skara Brae, Orkney
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Skara Brae, Orkney

Skara Brae is a Neolithic site situated in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The village of stone buildings was inhabited from c. 3100 to 2500 BCE.
Prehistoric Monument Stonehenge, c. 3000-1600 BCE
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Prehistoric Monument Stonehenge, c. 3000-1600 BCE - Ceremonial Landscape on Salisbury Plain

Stonehenge, located on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, is one of the most important monumental complexes of prehistoric northwestern Europe. Constructed in multiple phases between c. 3000 and 1600 BCE, it spans the Late Neolithic and...
Clay Tokens for Counting
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Clay Tokens for Counting

These clay tokens represent the first form of counting, before the invention of writing. They date back to the Neolithic period, 8000-7000 BCE and were found in Tapa Raza, south-east of modern Sulaimaniya Governorate, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya...
Champ Dolent Menhir
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Champ Dolent Menhir

The Champ Dolent menhir in northern Brittany, France has been standing in its place since the beginning of the Neolithic period. Weighing about 120 tons, it was dug from a granite quarry 4 km away. It is 9.30 m high (just over 30 feet) and...
Grinding Stone from Nabta Playa
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Grinding Stone from Nabta Playa

Seeds and wild grasses were processed with round or oval grinders (manos) of hard quartzitic sandstone. These were rubbed against a larger mill stone to make flour. A depression in the lower stone's surface prevented spillage. The abundance...
Balnuaran of Clava
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Balnuaran of Clava

The late Neolithic Age site of the Balnuaran of Clava, popularly known as Clava Cairns, dating from 2500 BCE.
The Clachaig Skull
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The Clachaig Skull

This skull was excavated from the cairn of Clachaig Falls on Arran in 1900 CE. With this skull, the skeletons of 14 men, women, and children were also discovered. The skull belonged to a young adult male; he was probably a farmer. Neolithic...
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