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I find these stories so fascinating...thought I would share.
[font size=1]A photo of the remains of a Bronze Age high status female found inside an oak-coffin in a monumental burial barrow at Egtved, Denmark. The Egtved Girls garments are extremely well preserved and her exceptional wool costume consists of several wool textile pieces as well as a disc-shaped bronze belt plate, symbolizing the sun.[/font]
In 1921, archaeologists exploring an ancient burial mound near Egtved, a village in Denmark, unearthed the grave of a girl estimated to have been 16 to 18 years old when she died.
Not much remained of her body only some hair, teeth, nails, and bits of skin and brain but scholars could tell a lot about her. Dressed in fine woolen clothing, with a bronze medallion on her belt that probably represented the sun, the Egtved Girl, as she came to be known, was believed to be a person of high status. She was buried with the cremated remains of a small child and a bark bucket that once contained beer. Analysis of the oak coffin in which she lay revealed that she died about 3,400 years ago.
This week, nearly a century after she was discovered, a team of researchers in Denmark filled in more detail of the Egtved Girls life story. By analyzing chemicals in her body and in the items in her coffin, they were able to surmise that she hadnt been born in Denmark, that her diet lacked protein from time to time, and that she traveled widely in the final months of her life.
Our study provides evidence for long-distance and periodically rapid mobility. Our findings compel us to rethink European Bronze Age mobility as highly dynamic, where individuals moved quickly, over long distances in relatively brief periods of time, the researchers wrote, in a study published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports.
More: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bronze-age-girl-denmark-travels-20150521-story.html
More details here: http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150521/srep10431/full/srep10431.html
and http://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-bronze-age/the-egtved-girl/
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They would plant fields and when the soil played out the whole community would move on to greener pastures.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2015/bronze-age-egtved-girl-found-in-denmark-came-from-the-black-forest
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)FSogol
(45,483 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)We have a fascination with people that died 3400 years ago, and that kind of information is even more valuable with people alive today. You can sell them stuff, make sure they're not doing anything wrong, etc. When the day comes that we're all biologically hooked up to the internet, it'll be that much easier.
Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)we don't know a whole lot about that time period. Not really sure what your point is. Do you object to our learning more about the Bronze Age?
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)As we become ever more immersed in the surveillance society being built, it's just because it/we need to know. Just like we need to know about some previous period of time.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)yellowwoodII
(616 posts)What I find fascinating about this is how people manage to fight over an event that might have happened 2000 years ago when history is so vast.