The skeleton, thought to be nearly 7,000 years old, was found alongside several weapons and a bag decorated with two halves of a boar's tusk.
A 6,800-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in Germany, belonging to a person who lived as far back as 4800 BC.The remains are thought to belong to an older man from a Neolithic community, who may have been a figure of local importance akin to a village leader or mayor, according to Florian Eibl, the district archaeologist overseeing the excavation.
The bones were found alongside several items, including eating and drinking vessels, dyes for body painting, a blade, and a stone ax. There was also a small bag that had been decorated with two halves of a boar's tusk—indicating the person's high status—containing fire-making tools.' may have contained a colored stone as well as pyrite and flint as a lighter.
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