Archaeologists in southern Spain have discovered a cemetery dating to 5,000 years ago that has about twice as many females as males, a new study finds.
The burial ground, known as Panoría cemetery, has a series of rock chamber tombs, including the remains of at least 19 dolmens, which are stone pillar "roofs" on upright megaliths that function as "walls." The site was excavated between 2015 and 2019 and contains collective burials that in total have about 55,000 human skeletal remains, according to a statement from the University of Granada, whose researchers did the research jointly with scientists from the University of Tübingenin in Germany.
