Failed brain surgery and possible human sacrifice revealed in Stone Age burial – Live Science

A Stone Age skull found in a Spanish cave bears the marks of a failed brain surgery and postmortem decapitation. 
The skull, which may have belonged to an adult woman, dates back to approximately 4800 B.C. to 4550 B.C. Archaeologists found the skull deep inside Dehesilla Cave on the Iberian peninsula, alongside a second adult skull perhaps from a man and the remains of a young goat, they reported Aug. 13 in the journal PLOS ONE
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The morbid and unusual discovery raises the possibility that t…

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