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Ancient Necropolis of 40 Tombs With Humans Buried in Pots Discovered in Corsica
OWEN JARUS, LIVE SCIENCE
14 MAY 2021
An ancient necropolis with 40 tombs, including cylindrical jars filled with human remains, has been discovered on the French island of Corsica.
The people buried in the cemetery range from infants to adults, the archaeologists said. Located in the town of Île-Rousse on the island s northern coast, the cemetery seems to have been used between the third and fifth centuries CE, a time in which the Roman Empire was gradually declining.
Many of the people were found buried inside amphoras, large vessels that would normally be used to carry goods such as olive oil, wine or pickles. The design of the amphoras indicates that they are from North Africa, with some possibly being manufactured in Carthage.
Before that, the rare antiquity was apparently laying in a castle moat at Mr. du Chatellier s family estate at the Chateau de Kernuz just 25 miles from where the slab was found.
What s known as the the Saint-Bélec slab was originally unearthed from a Bronze Age grave mound in Finistère, Brittany. It comprised one of the walls of a cist, a type of stone box that housed the bodies of the deceased. The tablet was most likely carved before it was reused in the burrow toward the end of the early Bronze Age, and has now been reexamined and classified as the oldest cartographical representation of a known territory in Europe.
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Colleter et al.
Remains buried in two mass graves in the same cemetery in France have been identified as medieval soldiers belonging to opposing armies.
Rozenn Colleter at the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research and her colleagues have identified the skeletons as belonging to soldiers who fought in the Siege of Rennes in 1491. The skeletons were found buried in a cemetery outside the Jacobin Convent in Rennes.
The researchers identified the skeletons by combining historical information with archaeological techniques, including genetic analysis. They found that … Continue reading Subscribe now for unlimited access
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