The earliest recorded case of impacted wisdom teeth belongs to the renowned "Magdalenian Girl," a nearly complete 13,000- to 15,000-year-old skeleton excavated in France in 1911and acquired by The ...

Cannibalism was a routine funerary practice in Europe about 15,000 years ago, with people eating their dead not out of necessity but rather as part of their culture, according to a new study. While ...

Although the Magdalenian in much of north-west Europe is commonly characterised as the period of the ‘reindeer hunters’ this is unlikely to have been the case in Iberia. Other lines of evidence showed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The category of "animal species" is at the heart of traditional interpretations of Palaeolithic art. In this context, animal depictions have ...

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This woman who has everyone so excited, where is her head? “It's in my Subaru Forester, riding in the back seat with the seat belt,” says anthropologist JP Brown, conservator for Chicago's Field ...

Sam Walters is the associate editor at Discover Magazine who writes and edits articles covering topics like archaeology, paleontology, ecology, and evolution, and manages a few print magazine sections ...

Europeans probably ate their dead loved ones instead of burying them 15,000 years ago. According to a new study, the consumption of dead people was not essential, but a ritual. Researchers also said ...

According to a new study, the consumption of dead people was not essential, but a ritual. Researchers also said people used the remaining bones as cups and chewed on them. Cannibalistic Europeans ...

Researchers identified marks and cuts associated with the removal of brains and bone marrow. - Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo/IAM/Francesc Marginedas/IPHES-CERCA Ancient ...