Göbekli Tepe: the "skull cult" mystery finds a very ordinary explanation
For years, the human bones scattered through the great enclosures of Göbekli Tepe fed the idea of a macabre skull cult. The discovery of th…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
For years, the human bones scattered through the great enclosures of Göbekli Tepe fed the idea of a macabre skull cult. The discovery of th…
Read →A Purdue University anthropologist has reopened a century-old case by re-examining 46 skulls from Abydos held at Cambridge. On eighteen of …
Read →In Shanidar Cave, in Iraqi Kurdistan, the shoulder blade of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal bears a near circular hole. For the Cambridge arc…
Read →Between Senegal and the Gambia, more than a thousand circles of standing stones line a band of savanna some 350 kilometres long. Carved fro…
Read →Beneath the cliff of Jbeil, Lebanon, a landslide in 1922 revealed the tombs of the princes of Byblos. Gold, obsidian, gifts from pharaohs a…
Read →In Egypt's Minya governorate, Predynastic tombs with tapered walls illuminate the path from simple pits to the monuments of Giza.
Read →In a cairn in northern Scotland, a woman's bones were shaped into points and edges, used, then carefully returned to their anatomical posit…
Read →Deep in a South African cave lie some twenty individuals of an extinct, tiny-brained humanity. Analysis of their proteins has just delivere…
Read →At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architecture, from the tombs of ea…
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