Vráble excavation is far from complete. Researchers have identified 112 individuals sitewide, with 158m of ditch still unexplored. Standard LBK burials with pottery and obsidian appear alongside the unusual deposits. Funded by the German Research Foundation as "Neolithic bodies," the project awaits DNA and isotope results that could reshape our understanding.
Vráble excavation incomplete; head curation hypothesis raised
Key facts
- 112 individuals identified from all depositions sitewide
- 77 headless bodies plus one child with skull represents only excavated portion of outer ditch
- Another 158 m of ditch remains unexcavated to next terminal
- Terminal ditch on opposite side of entrance contained three bodies, two headless and one with skull covered by a 30 cm wide lump of rock
- Standard LBK formal burials found in ditches alongside houses, in entrances, and around sides of ditch, with modest grave goods including pottery sherds and obsidian blades
- German Research Foundation funded ongoing project named 'Neolithic bodies'
- DNA results and isotope analyses still underway
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Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement ...researchgate.net
Our research at the large LBK settlement site of Vráble, southwest Slovakia, revealed dynamics of social integration and antagonisms unfolding in an ...
Archaeology in the Žitava valley Isidestone.com
The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the ...
Neolithic Settlement Vrábleen.wikipedia.org
The settlement was discovered in 2009 and has been systematically excavated since 2012 by an international research team led by the Academy of Sciences in Nitra ...
The Missing Heads of Vrábleanthropology.net
Seventy-seven headless skeletons have been excavated from a ditch at the edge of a 7,000-year-old farming village in southwestern Slovakia. They ...
Headless skeletons offer new insights into farming ...uni-kiel.de
The large Neolithic settlement at Vráble belongs to the most important excavation sites of the so-called Linear Pottery culture (LBK) in Central ...
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