May 30, 2007

Human Sacrifice in Stone Age Europe

Vincenzo Formicola, of the University of Pisa in Italy, has studied three different European burial sites dating to between 26,000 and 8,000 B.C. These dates fall smack dab in the Stone Age and offer a unique insight into the behaviors of early Europeans, because the graves,
“include the remains of physically disabled people hint at ritual [...]