7,000-year-old headless burials in Slovak ditch reveal Neolithic rituals
TL;DR
Archaeologists uncovered 78 skeletons at Vráble, Slovakia, dating to about 5250–4950 BCE, most of which were headless and buried in a ditch. The skulls appear to have been removed deliberately and possibly kept apart from the bodies, suggesting ritual or social practices rather than a massacre.
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