The skull monster he encountered was of a type he had never seen before. This skull surrounded by unidentifiable objects and surprisingly, it managed to be preserved underground for thousands of years.

What about what an archaeologist unearthed during excavations? What exactly were the things on the skull?

An ancient Stone Age skull found in Italy’s Caviglione Cave had extraordinary details.

This skeleton was unearthed by archaeologist Emile Riviere during excavations in 1872. It was initially thought to belong to a man. For this reason, the skeleton was nicknamed “Mentone Man”.

However, as a result of the archaeologist’s investigation, it was determined that this body belonged to a woman and “Woman of Cavigliona” It became known as. DNA testing showed that this tall woman was 37 years old when she died, had probably given birth several times and was already pregnant.

The striking feature of the skull is with small shells and red deer or dog teeth If it wasn’t covered. These shells were intertwined and almost looked like a headdress.

So why was the Cavigliona woman’s skull covered in shells and animal teeth?

Actually, the answer to this question is quite controversial. Stone Age people believed in life after death and gave gifts to the deceased It was customary to wear such a headdress before it was placed in the grave.

Valuables and accessories were indicators of belonging to a certain class, and the people who wore them were, so to speak would prove their social superiority. According to another view, such a headdress was a sign of holiness, not of power.

This gave rise to the idea that mothers wore this accessory made of shells and animal teeth.

Besides the Lady of Cavigliona, there were three other people, two of whom were women, who lived during that period and wore a similar headdress. The first of these was the Prince of Arene Candide, a 15-year-old boy. Candide owed his nickname The Prince to the special equipment with which he was buried and to the skull a cap consisting of hundreds of perforated shells It was surrounded by.

Ostuni Woman Delia was a pregnant woman who lived about 27,000 years ago. Delia’s head, with a cap painted in red ocher It was decorated and covered with various shells and deer teeth.

Finally, the Paglicci woman, whose body was exhumed in 1989 as a result of excavations, was buried with a headdress similar to the other women she lived with during the same period. Deer teeth with seven holes on the front of a dark yellow cap There was.

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