Tiny skeleton from Indonesia’s Flores island is unique ancient species, insist researchers
Neolithic discovery: why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain
Long before the Egyptians began the pyramids, Neolithic man built a vast temple complex at the top of what is now Scotland. Robin McKie visits the astonishing Ness of Brodgar
Scientists are accused of distorting theory of human evolution by misdating bones
Briton says Spanish researchers are out by 200,000 years and have even got the wrong species
How stone age man invented the art of raving
New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain
How fishermen are bringing lost secrets of UK waters to land
As trawlers dredge up more wrecks from our seas, a pilot scheme is set to record their finds
Piltdown Man: British archaeology’s greatest hoax
When the find was revealed to be a ‘cheap fraud’, several eminent men – including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – were put in the frame. Now scientists aim to put an end to the mystery once and for all