"Neolithic mass grave found in France" Topic
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Tango01  | 27 Mar 2021 3:23 p.m. PST |
"Archaeologists have discovered a Late Neolithic (3100 – 2900 B.C.) mass grave at the site of highway construction in Saint-Doulchard, central France. It is the first collective burial of its era found in the region. Similar burials have been found in the Paris Basin. They are older, from the middle of the 4th millennium B.C., and the recent discovery suggests the practice spread 155 miles to the south over the centuries in between. The bodies of about 40 individuals were interred in a rectangular pit 13 feet long and 5'9″ wide. There was originally some type of wood structure, as evidenced by the rectilinear perimeter of the pit today, but the wood has decomposed over the millennia…"
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| Zephyr1 | 27 Mar 2021 9:03 p.m. PST |
Well, that's going to be a fun mess to sort out… |
| Tango01 | 28 Mar 2021 4:10 p.m. PST |
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