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- Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling
- Weymouth Relief Road dig reveals dental discovery
- International Medieval Congress begins next week
- .New discovery shows Vikings used to cut 'army stripes' into their teeth
| Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling Posted: 07 Jul 2011 12:07 AM PDT Early humans wore jewelry and likely practiced cannibalism, suggest remains of the earliest known Homo sapiens from southeastern Europe. The remains, described in PLoS One, date to 32,000 years ago and represent the oldest direct evidence for anatomically modern humans in a well-documented context. The human remains are also the oldest known for our species in Europe to show post-mortem cut marks. "Our observations indicate a post-mortem treatment of human corpse including the selection of the skull," co-author Stephane Pean, a paleozoologist and archaeologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, told Discovery News. "We demonstrate that this treatment was not for nutritional purposes, according to comparison with game butchery treatment, so it is not a dietary cannibalism." Read the rest of this article...  |
| Weymouth Relief Road dig reveals dental discovery Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:59 PM PDT A GRUESOME dental discovery has been unearthed during analysis of the Viking burial pit remains found during construction of the Weymouth Relief Road. Experts analysing the findings have come across a filed pair of front teeth to add to the unravelling story about the beheaded victims. The burial pit containing 51 decapitated skulls with their bodies strewn nearby was discovered on the Ridgeway in June, 2009, an experts have been busy examining the remains. Read the rest of this article...  |
| International Medieval Congress begins next week Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:57 PM PDT re than 1,600 experts from all over the world will come together and take a medieval look at the contentious themes of poverty and wealth, at a forthcoming conference at the University of Leeds. The 17th annual International Medieval Congress, organised by the University's Institute for Medieval Studies, is the biggest academic event of its kind in the UK and the largest medieval-themed academic conference in Europe. Read the rest of this article...  |
| .New discovery shows Vikings used to cut 'army stripes' into their teeth Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:54 PM PDT Viking warriors may have given a new meaning to the expression 'cutting your teeth in battle' after archaeologists discovered the Norsemen filed stripes into their incisors to show their fighting status. ..The distinct grooves would have been made using a form of chisel to show the Viking was a proven warrior – similar to the various army stripes denoting rank of today, archaeologists believe. The teeth were discovered in a mass grave containing 54 headless bodies and 51 skulls of Vikings which were unearthed two years ago by workers building a relief road near Weymouth, Dorset. Read the rest of this article...  |
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