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) Dr. Klevnäs teamed up with four other archaeologists working in other parts of Europe – France, the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany. When they pooled their data, which covers findings at cemeteries from  Romania to England, they discovered that grave reopening was a far more widespread and long-lasting practice than previously believed. They found more than 1000 reopened graves in dozens of cemeteries. They believe that the  mortuary practice  likely started in central Europe shortly before the end of the 6th century, then it spread around the continent to reach a peak in the 7th century. Dr. Astrid Noterman, who studied the reopening of graves in over 40 sites in northern France, says that “The reopening custom spread over western Europe from the later sixth century and reached a peak in the seventh century.” But in many of the areas, they found the practice “peters out in the later seventh century, so that many cemeteries have a last phase of burials with no reo

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