Suppose you are an archaeologist in a quiet corner of southwestern Slovakia and you start uncovering human skeletons. Dozens of them, stacked on each other, crammed into a ditch. And none of them have a head.
That’s precisely what researchers at Kiel University and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have been gazing at since 2022, at a location called Vráble, one of the most important Neolithic villages ever discovered in Central Europe. The site was first investigated way back in 2012, but it’s the ditch excavations that have really upended our understanding of Stone Age life.
