A new study contradicts the long-held assumption that Ireland’s Neolithic passage tombs were reserved for members of an elite ...

Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially seemed to reinforce this. But our latest research has ...

A reanalysis of ancient DNA shows that a major cultural change took place in Ireland after four centuries of farming.

Archaeologists have long debated who was buried in these megalithic monuments and whether the tombs served other purposes, such as rituals, ceremonies, or displays. The prevailing view was that these ...

Instead, in passage tombs, most biological relationships ... We argue that rather than this being evidence for an elite class in Neolithic Ireland, something else is responsible for this genetic ...

Archaeologists have identified four different types of ancient tombs in Ireland, including three simple types used in the early Neolithic and a fourth type called "developed passage graves" that ...

The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labelled "passage tombs" by archaeologists ... and social structure in ...

“Traditionally, it has been considered that large passage tombs like Newgrange were the burial places of special or important ...