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Al-Kadada evidence for 5,500 year old human sacrifice
Posted by Greg Laden on July 28, 2013
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This is a site in the vicinity of Meroe in the Sudan, and seem to date to a period of transition between foraging and farming. From The Telegraph: In a graveyard in Al-Kadada, north of Khartoum, the archaeologists have dug up the tomb of a man and a woman facing each other in a ditch,…