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 ...

The cow’s skull was found at the Stone Age site of Champ-Durand in France ... and bones of cows, pigs, sheep and goats have been found. Cows have been a popular find in other Neolithic sites ...

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.

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 ...

It's likely these decorated skulls were part of a worldview elaborated in these stone carvings. We may never know what the builders of Göbekli Tepe believed, but we can now imagine the sacred ...

AN UNUSUAL cluster of Stone Age skulls with smashed-in faces has been found carefully separated from the rest of their skeletons. They appear to have been dug up several years after being buried ...

"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 ...