Burial sites reveal human sacrifice:

Investigations of prehistoric burial sites in Europe show that the region’s population may have practiced ritual human sacrifice. The large number of multiple-burial sites, some containing skeletons of dwarfs and deformed children accompanied by ornate grave goods, suggests that human sacrifice was a custom in Europe between 28,000 and 10,000 years ago, says biologist Vincenzo Formicola of the University of Pisa in Italy. Three multipleburial graves in Russia, the Czech Republic and Italy are the focus of his findings