A distinctive rock in the deepest part of a northern Israeli cave suggests the space may have been used for communal rituals about 35,000 ... Given the more recent age for fire use, it doesn ...

Värikallio rock paintings are some of the most famous examples of Stone Age rock art in Finland. Because some of the paintings depict a person drumming with their hands, researchers suggest the ...

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of human ... leading many to believe that some of these procedures were performed solely as rituals. Prehistoric societies might have also attempted ...

Archaeologists perplexed by mysterious Stone Age skulls found in Italian village - Skull fragments point to rituals directed towards specific ancestors, researchers say ...

Ritualized human sacrifice was common across Europe during the Stone Age, according to a team of ... is distinguishing ritual sacrifice from other forms of ritualized violence,” the study ...

One idea is that Stone Age people deliberately removed their digits. That might sound brutal, but ritual finger amputation is actually a relatively common practice. A 2018 study found it occurring ...

Personal adornment — including earring-like objects thought to be worn as piercings — has been documented among Neolithic or late Stone Age ... marked coming-of-age rituals within social ...

It's also possible the roundels may have been connected with trade, rituals or rites of passage ... archaeologists excavating the Stone Age roundel... The roundel structure uncovered in the ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for ... such as being focal points for rituals, ceremonies or performances. Early DNA work found that the people who ...