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The First Archaeological Evidence of an Assisted Birth in the Neolithic 6,000 Years Ago Found in the Dolomites

The death, which radiocarbon dating places between 3932 and 3653 B.C., surprised an individual at approximately forty weeks of gestation in the rock shelter of Ripari AltΓ­, at 1,100 meters above sea level, within the current Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park. The archaeological context points to the final phases of the Neolithic, a period in which […]

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