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Teen girl from 6,200 years ago with cone-shaped skull unearthed in Iran
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Young Woman with Cone-Shaped Skull Suffered Fatal Blow 6,000 Years Ago - Archaeology Magazine
CHEGA SOFLA, IRAN—Science News Today reports that archaeologists excavating a Copper Age cemetery in western Iran recently noticed the unusual skull of a young woman among the burials. Her elongated and cone-shaped cranium clearly indicated that when she was younger, she had undergone some type of skull modification, a process that usually involves the binding of a child’s head with cloth during their formative years. The report notes that for m…
700,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Cave in Iran
Alamut Castle, located in Iran’s Qazvin Province, stands near Qaleh Kurd Cave—the site where 700,000-year-old human remains were recently discovered. Credit: Ninara / CC BY 2.0 Archaeologists have discovered human remains in a cave in northern Iran that may date back as far as 700,000 years, making them the oldest evidence of human habitation ever recorded on the Iranian plateau. The remains were found in the Cave of Qaleh Kurd, near the city of…
Ancient cone-shaped skull shows signs of fatal trauma
Archeologists have spent over a decade excavating an ancient graveyard in western Iran known as Chegla Sofla. The Copper Age site contains a trove of skeletal remains, offering insight about regional life approximately 6,200 years ago, and even contains the oldest-known tomb constructed from brick. However, one of the most recent finds isn’t a feat of engineering, but of body modification: the skull of a young girl with distinct evidence of cra…
Teen girl from 6,200 years ago with cone-shaped skull unearthed in Iran
A pair of archaeologists working at a dig site in an ancient cemetery in western Iran have discovered the skull of a young girl that shows evidence of cranial modification. In their paper published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Mahdi Alirezazadeh and Hamed Vahdati Nasab describe where the skull was found, its condition, the modifications they observed and the likely way its owner died.
Archaeologists Discover a Conical Head Skull that Was Destroyed 6200 Years Ago, but No One Knows Why
A skull discovered that archaeologists and researchers cannot explain A recent discovery by archaeologists and researchers in Iran has shaken the foundations of prehistoric archaeology. In a communal cemetery dating from about 4 700–3 700 B.C., the skull of a young woman was unearthed that presents evident deliberate cranial deformation along with a severe fracture consistently applied at the time of death, according to a detailed study in the I…
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