The skull cache was found in one of the top layers ... It's unclear what the Neolithic people were doing with their ancestors' bones. It may have been a sort of display, Thompson said, "even ...

The unique-looking skull stood out for its elongated shape ... Evidence of artificial cranial deformation dates back to Neolithic times and has been practised across various cultures worldwide ...

The placement of the skull, along with the intact connections ... While records of decapitations exist in other European Neolithic sites, these often involve mutilations or less careful ...

The skull’s face was covered with soft ... Plastered skulls were less common and have been found at only one other Neolithic site in Turkey, though some have been found in the Palestinian ...

In this space the bones of the ancestors were kept, however, when archaeologists entered the tomb 4, 500 years later, only one small fragment of a human skull was found. The Neolithic farmers may ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society. Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially ...

“Crania plastering was common in the PPNB period in the 3rd millennium BC; the first plastered skull was discovered ... in the Holocene era, and the Neolithic period is considered to have ...