neolithic
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Remains of Teenage Girl May Push Back Funerary Traditions in Neolithic Iberia by a Millennium
Archaeologists studying ancient human remains in a Spanish cave system posit that one individual’s burial is the oldest Neolithic funerary site in Iberia by over 1,000 years. Some of the remains in the cave are over 7,000 years old, putting them firmly in the Early Neolithic ballpark. The presence of Neolithic ceramics around the remains…
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Stone Age Anatolians Dug Up Their Dead and Painted the Bones
Archaeological evidence from the ancient city of Çatalhöyük reveals a complex funerary ritual in which human bones were dug up, circulated among the community, painted, and reburied. The colouring on exhumed bones has also been matched to paintings found on building walls.
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This Neolithic Graveyard May Solve Mystery Of How Ancient Europe Started Farming
A new archaeological find in Turkey may have just answered a question about our ancestors that has persisted for thousands of years. Ancient farming may look a little less like what we imagined it as, and a little more like what we see today.