Secrets unearthed: Women and children buried with stone tools

ScienceDaily
Sep 11, 2025, 8:57 pm390 pts
Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone tools, long thought to symbolize male hunters, were actually buried just as often with women, children, and elders. Some were deliberately crafted and broken as part of funerary rituals,…

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