One in Silchester is only about 30 miles away, for example, and has dogs, ravens and a carved knife handle ... and what kinds of rituals they might have been up to. Was the bone deposit Roman ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Maya tools like obsidian blades, bone needles and even stingray tails found in ritual contexts ... used simply as kitchen knives. Now, archaeologists are ...

Examination of the edges of each tooth found they had been used to pierce, cut and scrape flesh and bone ... or ritual — including ritualised combat. For example, a fighting knife found ...

Scientists posit that the cave was a sacred location in which ritual blood sacrifices were ... Michele Bleuze, a bioarchaeologist who studied the bone fragments, noted a particularly grisly ...

Nine cut marks on a fossilized shin bone suggest that ancient human relatives ... that it was eaten for nutrition as opposed to for a ritual.” Study coauthor Michael Pante, a paleoanthropologist ...