SEE ALSO: Cats have been getting humans to do their bidding for 9,000 years Skull cults were common during the Neolithic period, which began around 10,000 B.C. Other digs worldwide have uncovered ...

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Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization - believed to be the oldest in the world.

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 door likely belonged to a Neolithic home in a village on Lake ... “Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said ...

That, in turn, suggests the practice of some sort of head or skull tradition – perhaps ... Liverpool's Professor Douglas Baird, a leading Neolithic expert, is directing an excavation at a ...

The Neolithic era was the transitional age when ... One apparatus even made three-dimensional plastic models of the skull and organs. Zur Nedden worked with a select, international team of experts ...

Zuliskandar said the finds uncovered in Gua Keledung Kecil showed that the community had inhabited the cave since the pre-Neolithic era ... The human skull discovery at Pos Pulat was the team ...

Fractures in his arms, legs, shoulder, and elbow joints, healed injuries to the skull, and muscular development ... during the late Neolithic period. The individual belonged to the Ymyyakhtakh ...

Knowth is best known for its impressively large collection of stones carved with Neolithic art ... site in 1975 uncovered the front of a human skull that was severed from the back part, perhaps ...

After just a few hours of digging, one archaeologist discovered the remains of a 4,000-year-old religious complex—an earthwork enclosure, or henge, built by late Neolithic tribesmen, probably ...