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Severed Heads, Skull Bowls Found in California Graves Were Tributes, Not War Trophies, Study Finds

October 12, 2015 —by Blake de Pastino 18205 1

A 3,000 year-old village discovered in central California has been found to contain an unusual set of burials — with more than a half dozen individuals buried without their heads,…

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Mass Grave Found in California Reveals Prehistoric Violence Against ‘Outsiders’

September 28, 2015 —by Blake de Pastino 40190 6

An ancient mass grave, uncovered during the construction of a shopping mall outside San Francisco, contains the bodies of seven men who appear to have been victims of “mass homicide”…

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Mass Grave of ‘Prodigal Sons’ in California Poses Prehistoric Mystery

October 17, 2013 —by Blake de Pastino 28124 10

New research has turned up some perplexing clues in a prehistoric mystery: the fate of three men found in a mass grave in California, their bodies riddled with arrow points…

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Severed Heads, Skull Bowls Found in California Graves Were Tributes, Not War Trophies, Study Finds

Mass Grave Found in California Reveals Prehistoric Violence Against ‘Outsiders’

Mass Grave of ‘Prodigal Sons’ in California Poses Prehistoric Mystery

700,000-Year-Old Horse Found in Yukon Permafrost Yields Oldest DNA Ever Decoded

At 50, Ring-Tab Beer Cans Are Now Officially Historic Artifacts

16,000-Year-Old Tools Discovered in Texas, Among the Oldest Found in the West

Wyoming Wildfire Reveals ‘Massive’ Shoshone Camp, Thousands of Artifacts

New Dinosaur Found in Montana Reveals Tyrannosaurs’ True Face (They Didn’t Have Lips)

First-Ever Fossil Poop Excavated From L.A.’s La Brea Tar Pits

New Feathered Dinosaur From New Mexico Was Among the ‘Last of the Raptors’

America’s Earliest Traces of Potato Use Found at 10,900-Year-Old Utah Shelter

Rock Art in Chaco Canyon May Depict Ancient Solar Eclipse, Experts Say

World’s Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur, a ‘Mona Lisa’ of Fossils, Found in Alberta