The Panoria necropolis contains far more women than men. Source: Female sex bias in Iberian megalithic societies through bioarchaeology, aDNA and proteomics.

Ancient Iberian Rock Tombs were Mostly for Women

In Panoria, in the province of Granada in Spain lies a rock necropolis that is truly ancient. At 5,600 years old, it was constructed well before the Egyptians got started with their pyramids. There are many questions still unanswered about the complex, the people who built it and their society, but now we have one

The veneration of skulls is known from other ancient sites such as Jericho, but Tell Qaramel appear to be the earliest, and the site may have much to tell us about the development of human culture. Source: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Tell Qaramel and the Neolithic Cult of Severed Heads

Some would argue that human history begins in detail with the Iron Age. Although records survive in some particular locations from the earlier Bronze Age and there is much archaeology to pick over, we can only start to map the general course of our past once we have access to surviving histories, mythologies, and oral

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