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The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Science Direct, a research team led by geomorphologist Professor David ...

A standing stone was erected next to it and they dug out a ditch 14m/45ft across, with a bank rising next to it to mark it as a sacred space. These Neolithic farmers probably lived at the nearby ...

National Museum of Denmark Over the years, a variety of mysterious engraved stone plaques have been unearthed in Denmark. The decorative artifacts date to around 2900 B.C.E., during the Neolithic ...

It is reasonable to believe that the Neolithic people on Bornholm wanted to protect themselves from further deterioration of the climate by sacrificing sun stones,” said Iversen. “Or perhaps ...

Scientists discovered the first of these small, carved stone artifacts in 1995 at a Neolithic site called Rispebjerg on the island of Bornholm, about 112 miles (180 kilometers) southeast of ...

“It is reasonable to believe that the Neolithic people on Bornholm wanted to protect themselves from further deterioration of the climate by sacrificing sun stones – or perhaps they wanted to ...