If you've ever pictured the builders of Stonehenge or the legendary warriors immortalized in "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," ...

“It’s been assumed that the woodland was cleared away by Neolithic farmers, but that doesn’t ... figure is the earliest depiction of a human face found in Britain. Whatever the reason ...

These Neolithic farmers probably lived at the nearby settlements of Barnhouse or Skara Brae and worshiped at the Stones of Stenness. Maes Howe was the house of the dead – the house of the ancestors.

The early farmers grew wheat and barley ... was surrounded by stone to protect them from being bumped and broken. Neolithic people built grave mounds to bury their dead. People stored the bones ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone ... they built can still be seen today. The early farmers still went hunting and gathered nuts and ...