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DNA Study Reveals the True Origins and Ritual Secrets of Shimao, China’s Enigmatic Neolithic City
For decades, the stone walls of Shimao—one of the largest and most imposing Neolithic settlements in northern China—have guarded a silence that archaeology alone could not fully break. Now, a landmark genomic study published in Nature has begun to decode that silence, revealing who the people of Shimao were, how their society worked, and why…
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Teenage Girl Buried Face Down 2,000 Years Ago May Have Been a Human Sacrifice
When archaeologists brushed away the Dorset soil, they didn’t expect to uncover the skeleton of a teenage girl lying face down — a chilling clue to a 2,000-year-old ritual. The grave, unearthed by researchers from Bournemouth University, may reveal one of Britain’s earliest known acts of human sacrifice, linked to the enigmatic Iron Age Durotriges…