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Archaeologists in central Romania have uncovered a rare 7,500-year-old clay figurine depicting a female figure with arms raised in invocation. Discovered during preventive excavations, the small Neolithic artifact illuminates the symbolic and spiritual world of Europe’s earliest farming communities.
Recent archaeological research at the Neolithic site of Masseria Candelaro in southern Italy has unveiled a rare and compelling glimpse into how ancient societies created and interacted with their ancestors.
Now owned by English Heritage, the Thornborough Henges are a complex of three large Neolithic henge monuments located in North Yorkshire, England, dating back to between 3500 and 2500 BCE. They are notable not only for their archaeological importance but also for their contemporary cultural relevance, as English Heritage has been supportive of the Beltane Pagan festival held there.
There is controversy over the reputed destruction of 39 standing stones, or menhir, in the French village of Carnac. But the accounts of what happened are disputed between the Carnac government and a local archeologist.