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Ancient headless skeletons discovered in mass graves in China, dating back 4,100 years, are believed to be victims of the largest known headhunting massacre in Neolithic Asia. Headless skeletons: According to a study published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, there were 43 victims found in the mass grave, with 32 believed to have been killed during the same event. The skeletons were recovered at the Honghe site in Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, which wa...

Groundbreaking study has unveiled 41 decapitated skeletons, all women and children, revealing a brutal massacre in Neolithic China.

Researchers found 68 skeletons, including 41 who were headless, dating to 4,100 to 4,400 years ago

Public Release: 27-Oct-2015   National Research Tomsk State University IMAGE: This image shows a fragment of the calf scull. Credit: ©TSU At the end of the Pleistocene mammoths of Northern Eurasia used to experience chronic mineral hunger. As a result they became extinct due to geochemical stress arising on a background of deep abiotic changes…

Archeologists analyze plant remains to determine the evolution of agriculture in the region

A research team has found the long-lost city of Titiakos and the remains of a Roman military camp in Spain, bringing to light the strategic genius of early Roman engineering.

Fossil endocasts record features of brains from the past: size, shape, vasculature, and gyrification. These data, alongside experimental and comparative evidence, are needed to resolve questions about brain energetics, cognitive specializations, and developmental plasticity. Through the application of interdisciplinary techniques to the fossil record, paleoneurology has been leading major innovations. Neuroimaging is shedding light on fossil brain organization and behaviors. Inferences about the...

Birch bark was heated in underground chambers to create a tougher adhesive.

The first synthetic substance ever brewed on planet Earth may not have been a product of our own species but was concocted by a close relative as far back as around 200,000 years ago.

Shipwrecks are an integral part of our underwater landscape. According to UNESCO, there are three million wrecks worldwide, and these create various m...