Stone Age farmers who depended on the sun for their harvests may have carved solar designs on stones to acknowledge their reliance on the sun, then buried the sun stones as a type of “sacrifice ...

Though Stonehenge has been widely known for thousands of years, Germany's "Ringheiligtum Pömmelte," the Ring Sanctuary of ...

Although human sacrifice in coastal Ecuador is rare ... There was a large green clay stone nearby and several ceramic fragments on her forehead, according to the study. Crescent-shaped spondylus ...

The sacrifice also bestowed an elevated status ... would be coralled, and permanent stone structures would be built to offer shelter to the priests and the child.