The DNA also showed that most of the people the researchers tested were female. "So we are dealing with adolescents ... In the case of the Bronze Age burials in Turkey, this "age set" of adolescents ...

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

Ancient burials in Turkey Wengrow and colleagues have studied a series of skeletons found at the archaeological site of Başur Höyük on the Upper Tigris River in southeastern Turkey. Once part ...