Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women found at UK construction site
Their remains were found in Kent on a construction site where 41 houses are planned to be built, along with animal bones, pottery and evidence of a Roman road during the necessary archaeological research. The BBC was the first to report.
One of the women, estimated to be 30-35 years old, was found in a buried position, the report said. The position is documented back in the late Neolithic eraor about 5,500-4,700 years ago, and to the beginning of the Early Bronze Age, according to burial archeology experts.
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Although some archaeologists study the burial practices of the past from the remains of excavations, they cannot say exactly why certain people were buried in certain places.
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Skull fragments found at the site are believed to be from another young woman of 500-400 AD. BC, the BBC reports, and will be archived by Kent County Council in a museum alongside other new finds.
Previous discoveries in England have led researchers to believe that Bronze Age Britons used a variety of mummify the deadincluding temporarily placing them in swamps, burning them at the stake, or removing their organs after death.
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These new finds of Bronze Age remains and artefacts could offer researchers a deeper insight into the era when people first explored the use of metal for tools, weapons, ornaments and ceremonial purposes – and mark a time when agriculture became more widespread in and around Kent. a south-eastern English county.