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Stone Age Grave in Poland Held Man Buried With Two Decapitated Heads, Tooth Necklace
Archaeologists excavating a Roman-period cemetery in Poland found a much older Stone Age grave containing a man buried with two decapitated human heads and a necklace of 42 mammal teeth.
Archaeologists excavating a Roman-period cemetery in Poland have uncovered a far older grave: a Stone Age man buried with two decapitated human heads, a necklace made from 42 mammal teeth, and a battle ax.
The battle ax was the key clue that the grave predated the Roman cemetery around it by roughly three millennia, marking the burial as Stone Age rather than Roman.
"We were practically packing up, and then we discovered a circular shape in the ground and began digging," said Paweł Dąbrowski, a biological anthropologist at Wrocław Medical University, in a Sept. 2 translated statement. "We found fairly well-preserved animal teeth arranged in a necklace."
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