DNA Reveals Unexpected Burial In One of Europe’s Largest Neolithic Monuments

DNA Reveals Unexpected Burial In One of Europe’s Largest Neolithic Monuments

Dolmen de Menga. Credit: Tony Makepeace / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 A new interdisciplinary study has revealed that one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments was used for burial thousands of years after it was built, offering rare insight into how ancient sites continued to shape ritual life long after prehistory ended. Researchers found that two individuals were deliberately buried inside the Menga dolmen during the early medieval Islamic…