Ditch full of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in Slovakia, baffling archaeologists

Ditch full of 7,000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in Slovakia, baffling archaeologists

Archaeologists are unsure why people in Stone Age Slovakia removed corpses' heads before burying them in a neighborhood ditch.At the entrance to a Stone Age neighborhood in Slovakia, archaeologists have uncovered a ditch full of headless human skeletons.While the bones reveal cut marks that signal decapitation, researchers think the practice was not a violent mass killing but rather part of a complex burial ritual more than 7,000 years ago. In o…