Ritual of cremation of a bronze age studied on ashes of the woman and the child from Austria

@Nauka - TASS
Show original
The group of researchers of different areas of science opened earlier not studied details of a ceremony, characteristic for urnopolsky culture more than 3,2 thousand years ago the Group of the European researchers studied contents of two funeral ballot boxes of a late bronze age to open subtleties ancient the practician of cremation in Central Europe. Using tools of forensic medicine, archeology and radiology, scientists learned, whose ashes were in ballot boxes and why in both there were remains of different people, animals and ashes of plants. Details of research are described in article in the PLoS ONE magazine. Archeologists studied the funeral...