Skeleton of Bronze Age woman discovered on UK construction site

Skeletal remains and skull fragments of two Bronze Age women have been found at a construction site in the United Kingdom.

His remains were found in Kent on a site planned for 41 houses with animal bones, pottery and evidence of a Roman road while a necessary archaeological survey was being carried out. the BBC reported earlier.

One of the women – estimated to be around 30-35 years old – was found in a crouch burial position, the report said. The position has been documented already from the late Neolithic eraor about 5500-4700 years ago, and before the Bronze Age, according to burial archeology experts.

Although some archaeologists study the burial practices of the past through excavated remains, they are unable to say for sure why certain people were buried in certain positions.

The skull fragments discovered at the site are believed to be from another young woman from 500-400 BC, the BBC said, and will be archived by Kent County Council in a museum, along with other new discoveries.

Previous discoveries in England have led researchers to believe that the Bronze Age Britons used a variety of ways to mummify the deadincluding putting them temporarily in bogs, smoking them on a fire or removing their organs after death.

These new discoveries of Bronze Age remains and artifacts may offer researchers more insight into the era when humans first explored the use of metals for tools, weapons, jewelry and ceremonial purposes – and marked a time when farming became more widespread in and around Kent. a southeastern English county.