4,600 Year Old Burial Site Contains Oldest 'Nuclear Family'
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 17:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers dated remains from four multiple burials discovered in Germany in 2005 and found that the 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – an unusual practice in Neolithic culture. One of the graves was found to contain a female, a male and two children. Advertisement: read more
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