The woman had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of ...

Reconstruction of a shaman woman; note bone rings on six fingers. Credit: M. Kunin The funerary objects found alongside her reinforce the hypothesis of her importance within Neolithic society. These ...

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Experts say the discovery "opens a window into the spiritual world of communities that lived approximately 10,000 years ago.” ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

4,900 years ago, a Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ...

Around 4,900 years ago, Neolithic people on Bornholm, Denmark, sacrificed stones with sun motifs, coinciding with a volcanic eruption that obscured the sun in Northern Europe.

This is well-documented in written sources from ancient Greece and Rome. We do not have written sources from the Neolithic. But climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University ...

The first discovery of the so-called sun stones arrived in 1995 when a few pieces came to light during excavations at the Neolithic site of Rispebjerg on the Danish island of Bornholm. But they ...

A volcanic eruption sometime around 2,900 BCE in what is now Northern Europe may have blocked out the sun and subsequently harmed the agriculture-depended Neolithic peoples living there.