(Press-News.org) Detailed analysis of two Late Bronze Age urn burials uncovers animal bones and jewelry amidst the cremated remains of a woman and child, and reveals insights into prehistoric funerary rites
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289140
Article Title: More than urns: A multi-method pipeline for analyzing cremation burials
Author Countries: Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Belgium
Funding: This study was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in the framework of the project ‘Unlocking the secrets of cremated human remains’ (grant number P-33533) awarded to KRS. This study is also supported by the ERC Starting Grant LUMIERE (Landscape Use and Mobility In EuRope –Bridging the gap between cremation and inhumation), funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant number 948913), awarded to CS. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Detailed analysis of two Late Bronze Age urn burials uncovers animal bones and jewelry amidst the cremated remains of a woman and child, and reveals insights into prehistoric funerary rites
2023-08-30
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