A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labeled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

Archaeologists have identified four different types of ancient tombs in Ireland, including three simple types used in the early Neolithic and a fourth type called "developed passage graves" that ...

Chipping away at the flint a tiny piece at a time, the Neolithic person “painstakingly ... a limekiln and other flint artifacts, including additional arrowheads, Cotswold Archaeology said ...

This means they formed a genetic cluster. We argue that rather than this being evidence for an elite class in Neolithic Ireland, something else is responsible for this genetic patterning.

So says a UCD-led group of archeologists, whose findings portray a less hierarchical picture of daily life in Neolithic Ireland than previously assumed. Previous genetic evidence suggested that ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has overturned this idea. By integrating exciting new results from ancient DNA ...