There's a pervasive idea that Neolithic Europe was a peaceful and even matriarchal society. However, the evidence shows that these could be remarkably violent societies. Evidence from Neolithic tombs shows human remains suffering from injuries, often fatal ones, caused by violence. They might even have practiced head hunting and human sacrifice. #history #Britain #Europe | Dan Davis - Author

From Egypt to Babylon, from Europe’s megaliths to Cambodia’s temples — ancient architects shared a profound mastery of geometry. They saw it not just as mathematics, but as the blueprint of creation itself. Sacred structures around the world embody this belief, reflecting the idea that God was the Great Geometrician. Geometry was more than design...it was the language of the sacred. | The Randall Carlson

Here’s a shot of Ellie’s Neolithic patterns by the fireside. These symbols were pecked (a form of stone carving) onto megaliths (huge stones) 5000 years ago. The decorated structures across north-western Europe are known today as chamber tombs, though much research has been done in the past 40 years to show that they were so much more than burial places of the dead. The structures line up with different natural events, for instance the solstices and different lunar events. In context, these carv