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Articles: The face of a 6,000-year-old man
22 January 2010[image: The Penywyrlod Head]
A rare Stone Age skull discovered in a burial mound in Powys has given scientists the opportunity to reconstruct the face of a 6,000-year-old man, revealing that he was no hulking cave man but in fact very similar looking to modern man.Audio: The sound of the Neanderthals
14 May 2009[image: Reconstruction painting showing an Early Neanderthal.]
Neanderthal remains dating back 230,000 years have been found at Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire in Wales. The teeth and stone tools provided the inspiration for composer Simon Thorne to create a soundscape, Neanderthal, to play in the gallery Origins at National Museum Cardiff.
Articles: A Stone Age masterpiece - A Mace-head from North Wales
14 May 2007[image: Mace Heads]
It is easy to think of the Stone Age as a period in which life was nasty, brutish and short. The Maesmor mace-head is proof that it was not always so.
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Articles: The face of a 6,000-year-old man
22 January 2010[image: The Penywyrlod Head]
A rare Stone Age skull discovered in a burial mound in Powys has given scientists the opportunity to reconstruct the face of a 6,000-year-old man, revealing that he was no hulking cave man but in fact very similar looking to modern man.Articles: A Stone Age masterpiece - A Mace-head from North Wales
14 May 2007[image: Mace Heads]
It is easy to think of the Stone Age as a period in which life was nasty, brutish and short. The Maesmor mace-head is proof that it was not always so.Articles: The megalithic tombs of Stone Age Wales
14 May 2007[image: Pentre Ifan (Pembrokeshire)]
Wales is home to one of the best collections of megalithic tombs in the UK. As well as being visually dramatic, these provide an important source of information about life and death 5,500 years ago.