A 10,000-year-old girl's grave found in Italy
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In the Arma Veirana cave, located in the northwest of Italy, an important discovery was made regarding the social life of the first humans. Archaeologists have unearthed the magnificent tomb of a girl named "Nev" who died when she was only 40 days old. It was seen that the grave of the child who died about 10 thousand years ago was meticulously decorated with eagle claws and seashells. Experts said that this showed that the society of the period was sensitive about gender equality and babies were treated like adults.
Archaeologists working in a cave in Italy have unearthed a highly decorated 10,000-year-old baby girl tomb, the oldest of its kind in Europe.
FINISHED WITH SEA SHELL AND EAGLE CLAW
The archaeological excavation was carried out by the University of Colorado Denver in the USA. Researchers noted that the tomb of the hunter-gatherer boy nicknamed "Neve" was decorated with seashells and eagle claws.
EVIDENCE OF THE EQUALIST NATURE OF FUNERAL CEREMONIES
On the other hand, Neve's remains were first discovered in 2017 in the Arma Veirana cave near the Ligurian Alps, and were painstakingly excavated in the years that followed. Experts said very few burials from the early Middle Stone Age were found, adding that the new findings are evidence of the egalitarian nature of burials at that time.
The authors of the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, say, "The evolution of how early people bury their dead is of enormous cultural importance, as revealed in the archaeological record. Funeral practice sheds light on the structure of past societies. For example, the burial of children indicates that they are considered fully human.”
LOOKS LIKE 11,500 YEARS OLD TOMBS IN ALASKA
However, archaeologists explained that Neve's burial was similar to that of 11,500-year-old babies previously found in Alaska's Upward Sun River.
This suggests that the recognition of infants as full persons may have their origin in an ancestral culture shared by peoples who migrated to Europe and North America.
Arma Veirana, on the other hand, is a popular destination in northwestern Italy not only among local families, but also among looters, whose excavations revealed late Ice Age tools that first brought the cave to the attention of archaeologists in 2015.
That's why they spent the first two years working near the mouth of the cave, uncovering tools dating back 50,000 years, the researchers said. But the sediments from the depths of the cave attracted the attention. As they began exploring these sediment layers deep in the cave, the team began to uncover a series of pierced seashells, which soon led to the discovery of part of Neve's tomb by anthropologist Claudine Gravel-Miguel.
IT WAS ONLY 40-50 DAYS WHEN HE DID
"I was digging in a square near the burial site, and I remember looking around and thinking, 'This is a strange bone.' It quickly became clear that the skull we were looking at belonged to a very small human being. It was a very emotional day," Gravel-Miguel said.
On the other hand, research on Neve's teeth showed that she was probably only 40-50 days old when she died. At the same time, scientists discovered that she was stressed in the womb and that her teeth temporarily stopped developing 47 to 28 days before birth.
AN IMPORTANT TIME TO UNDERSTAND HUMANITY'S PAST
In addition, carbon and nitrogen analyzes of the teeth showed that Neve's mother fed a terrestrial diet while pregnant. It was through radiocarbon dating of the remains that archaeologists were able to determine that Neve lived about 10,000 years ago.
"The Mesolithic period is particularly interesting," said study author and paleoanthropologist Caley Orr of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. It follows the end of the last Ice Age and represents the last period in Europe when hunting and gathering was the primary means of making a living. In other words, it is a really important time period to understand the history of humanity.” nonstop news
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