Kanaljorden made international headlines in 2018 when researchers published a report on the excavation, noting that wood preserved inside two of the skulls indicated that at least some of the ...

Experts say the findings could be the first evidence of ancient human rituals. The skulls belonged to large ungulates — mammals with hooves, including horses, bison, deer and elk — and were ...

Alternatively, however, the animal remains might have been used in esoteric rituals ... They also came across 35 horned skulls belonging to bison, deer, and huge extinct species such as aurochs ...

The assemblage also includes five male deer skulls and two rhinoceroses ... that the site's occupants had repeatedly performed this ritual over a long period of time, passing the behavior ...

Researchers, including Michele Bleuze from California State University, found signs of the bones having been subject to ritual dismemberment. One skull fragment, for instance, bore a mark on one ...

A tribe refused to take back a series of ‘cursed’ skulls (Picture: Missiemuseum) A tribe in Papua New Guinea has refused to accept a series of ‘cursed’ ritual skulls made by cannibal ...

Most bodies were cremated at this time, so there is very little evidence of death rituals in the archaeological record. After death, iron nails were placed into the skulls of certain individuals.