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Artefacts made of bird feathers, plant fibres and fur buried with a child in the Mesolithic Stone Age

On the basis of archaeological research, it was possible to identify human remains as a child who may have been laid on a bed of down in a Stone Age burial site discovered under a gravel road in ...
Archaeology

Mesolithic Grave in Italy Held Remains of Female Infant

DENVER, COLORADO—According to a Gizmodo report, paleoanthropologist Jamie Hodgkins of the University of Colorado, Denver, and her colleagues have analyzed the remains of an infant discovered in a cave ...
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Archaeologists excavate a 9.000 year old site at Dehlitz, identify hunting camp coeval with the "Bad Dürrenberg shaman"

Archaeologists of the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt currently excavate a Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) site contemporaneous to the famous “shamam of Bad Dürrenberg ...
UPI

Buried at the stake: Underwater burial site yields skulls on poles

Feb. 27 (UPI) --Most of the grave sites laid by the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic suggest early humans maintained a respectful relationship with death. Mesolithic grave sites feature simple, ...
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Discovery of Ornate, 10,000-Year-Old Infant Grave Surprises Archaeologists

An elaborate burial from the Mesolithic Period is intriguing archaeologists, not because of decoration of the tomb but its occupant: an infant girl who lived just 40 to 50 days. The 10,000-year-old ...