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The placement of significant artifacts—such as stone tools, animal bones, and ochre chunks—within the burial pits may further indicate early beliefs in the afterlife. Prof. Zaidner describes ...

Stone tools, animal bones and chunks of ochre deliberately placed in burial pits hint at the possibility of early spiritual beliefs. Tinshemet Cave provides evidence for the extensive use of ochre ...

The site has yielded fully articulated human skeletons carefully positioned in burial positions, thousands of ochre fragments transported from distant sources, stone tools made with consistent ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ancient art- ever discovered in Tibet. Radiocarbon dating of ancient bones ...

The cave presented a wealth of ochre, fauna, and stone tools, which offer important hints at how its inhabitants lived and died. The archaeologists found over 7,500 ochre fragments of different ...