Earliest directly-dated human skull-cups.

<h4>Background</h4>The use of human braincases as drinking cups and containers has extensive historic and ethnographic documentation, but archaeological examples are extremely rare. In the Upper Palaeolithic of western Europe, cut-marked and broken human bones are widespread in the Magda...

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Main Authors: Silvia M Bello, Simon A Parfitt, Chris B Stringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-02-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21359211/pdf/?tool=EBI