More than a century ago, archaeologists digging at Stonehenge uncovered a cow’s jawbone. It was placed deliberately beside the monument’s south entrance, dating to the very dawn of its construction ...

Among the many mysteries of Stonehenge is a cow jawbone that archaeologists found more than a century ago carefully laid beside the Neolithic monument’s southern entrance. The jawbone has since been ...

Cows have been domesticated for over 10,000 years. They’re cloven-hooved herbivores of the Bovidae family. We use them for everything from meat to milk to leather. They’re raised all over the world ...

Scientists sliced open a Neolithic cow’s molar, and now they believe they know quite a bit more about the history of Stonehenge. This particular cow—or, at least, this particular cow’s jawbone—was ...

Stonehenge at sunset. Construction of the iconic stone circle began around 3000 B.C.E. and continued in several phases. Captain Skyhigh via Getty Images About 5,000 years ago, Neolithic inhabitants of ...