Neolithic humans were apparently big on reuse.
A lot of human remains have been found in Marmoles Cave, but a detailed anthropological study had not yet been performed. Laffranchi and her colleagues undertook new radiocarbon, anthropological, and taphonomic analyses of altered bones from the cave, to try to find out more about the people who had once lived and died there.
They also determined that the bones were from at least 12 different individuals, of which seven were adults, and that they had been treated in similar ways, suggesting a set of well-defined traditions and beliefs. And, of particular interest, the team found a fragment of skull that appears to have been reworked and used, perhaps as a cup or bowl.
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