It could be because people there had plentiful hard stone – slate ­– which they carved the sun images on ... but you are more isolated on an island, which could be why they developed a ...

Scientists discovered the first of these small, carved stone artifacts in 1995 ... Excavations uncovered hundreds more sun ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...