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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 was first discovered in the 1990s and excavated multiple times since 2013.

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