Archaeologists working in western Slovakia did not expect the perimeter ditch of an early farming settlement to become one of Europe’s most unsettling burial puzzles. But as excavation layers were removed from the Neolithic site near modern-day Vráble, what emerged was not a typical cemetery. It was a boundary feature filled with disarticulated, headless human skeletons, at least 77 individuals so far, clustered in patterns that do not match conventional burial practices.
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