There, a 2017 excavation revealed two jawless skulls, buried alongside stone tools, bits of pottery and most of the skeleton of a sheep or goat that was likely less than 10 days old at death.

The skull was found in a human settlement with a cemetery dating back to the late Stone Age which has been ... the desert with their herds of cattle, sheep and goats and not hunter-gatherers ...

40" (102 cm). The stone sheep has slightly heavier horns than the Dall sheep. It is larger and chunkier than the Dall sheep and has a wider skull. Its horns can vary in size and shape but ...

That evidence focuses on what anthropologists are calling a "skull cult." Yes ... it's from a time known as the pre-pottery Stone Age, when our ancestors were simple hunters and gatherers.

The researchers also unearthed a series of Neolithic tombs dating to between 4,950 B.C. and 4,750 B.C. The skeletons of a dog and a sheep or goat were also found in the area, dating to between 450 ...

“The ancient ‘doctor’ definitely had a ‘surgical set’ of stone tools,” said the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Article continues below The skull ...

"But when later studies compared the skull with others found at the site, the evidence pointed to a female." The original excavation at the burial site also uncovered stone tools, bone tips ...