The remains of at least 12 people with missing skulls and large bones were found in a 5,500-year-old Neolithic tomb in Sweden, as ongoing DNA studies try to uncover familial connections and potential diseases.
A team of archaeologists in central Sweden has unearthed the thousands-of-year-old stone chamber containing several burials from the Early Neolithic period.
The Smithsonian Institution has described the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, that took place from 7000 to 1700 BCE as a period characterized by the beginning of a settled human lifestyle.
