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The discovery of 'Neve,' who was interred in an Italian cave less than 8 months after she was born, raises important questions on when ancient communities granted full personhood on their youngest members.

Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They entombed her with a

UdeM guest researcher Claudine Gravel-Miguel working at the site of Arma Veirana in Liguria, Italy, in 2018. Credit: David Strait The baby girl was

Discovery sheds new light on the way that Stone Age tribes treasured newborns, both male and female