9,500-year-old funerary rituals involving the reduction of fresh corpses discovered in east central Brazil

Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 07:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Findings from Lapa do Santo show oldest evidence in the continent of humans performing elaborated funerary rituals based on the manipulation and reduction of fresh corpses and the reorganization of body parts.

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