According to Archaeology, a wall within the caves separated the skulls and goat skeleton from the altar ... of items uncovered here. The two adult human skulls belonged to a man and a woman ...

UCC graduate, Glenn Gibney, tells Sarah Horgan about his work over the last decade to piece together the stories of people's lives from centuries ago through the analysis of their bones ...

New radiocarbon dating shows the famous Maiden Castle “war cemetery” contains victims of multiple violent episodes over 80 ...

"African human skull, early 20th century, 2,000 euros." Adverts like this can be seen on social media. The trade is legal in Germany, even when the skulls date from the German colonial era.

HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — A forensic genetic genealogy team has uncovered a mystery behind a partial human skull found 32 years ago on a beach in Northern California. The woman’s skull ...

(Credit: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Then in 1993, a man walking the beach near Trinidad Head found a partial human skull and turned it over to authorities. DNA testing at that time did not ...

A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft ...

If you have ever broken a bone, you quickly learn two things: it hurts a lot, and bones are living tissue that takes time to ...

Bleuze said the injuries enacted upon the more than 100 adult and juvenile human bone fragments show that the remains were part of a ritual to please a Maya rain god. “The emerging pattern that ...

The unidentified man’s discovery in February 1993 turned out to be a partial human skull that he handed over to the nearby Fortuna Police Department. To help identify the remains, the police ...

Among the reasons which they adduce for this conclusion is the fact that the “skeleton, which is of modern type, with filed teeth, was found completely articulated down even to the phalanges ...