April
08
/ 2021
All societies, ancient and modern, lay a great deal of emphasis on how their dead should be buried. In a cave in southern Spain, researchers have discovered the extent to which Middle-Neolithic-age societies practiced burials and associated rituals, and the findings are far from pretty. Two Neolithic age skulls, between 6,550 and 6,800 years ago, were laid to rest with a young sheep or goat, in one of the Dehesilla caves south of Cadiz, Spain. Research was carried out by a diverse team of scholars, historians and archaeologists, from the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Seville. Their findings were published in the coveted peer-review journal, PLOS ONE. The Dehesilla cave site known as “Locus 2” south
