In a ritual burial, the dog’s remains were placed in a bag made of animal skins and weighed down with rocks to sink to the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the complete skeleton of a dog dating back roughly 5,000 years under a lakebed. The discovery, ...

A tranquil Swedish wetland has yielded a startlingly intimate scene from prehistory, where a 5,000-year-old dog lies ...

Explore the deadly precision of bone daggers from New Guinea, forged from human and cassowary bones for fierce hand-to-hand combat. Bone daggers from New Guinea. a) Human bone dagger attributed to the ...

Up until the 20th century, the use of bone daggers among the Papuan males of New Guinea was commonplace. Many of these daggers were forged from the femurs of large birds, but some were made from the ...

PARIS - New Guinea warriors harvested thigh bones from their dead fathers to fashion into ornamental but deadly daggers used to kill and maim enemies, sometimes to eat them. But why use human bone ...

Human thigh bones were used to make incredibly strong daggers. Pictured, Syrian Fayad al-Sioufi working on a dagger scabbard at his shop selling various types of blades made of Damascus steel in the ...