Journey to the Next World: How Bronze Age Britons Saved Dead Bones of Ancestors - Independent

Radiocarbon dating, CT scanning, and microcomputed tomography suggest some Bronze Age burials purposely included bones from folks who had died up to hundreds of years before. The study has produced much "it is conceivable" learned speculation about why this was practiced between the 24th and 16th centuries BCE, and replaced around 1500 BCE by "a new human relic bone practice." Most archaeological redating results in earlier estimates for technological developments and material finds. Example: an Ancient Chinese Text Revealed to be an Anatomical Atlas of the Human Body. Reinterpretations of medical manuscripts "re-write a key part of Chinese history," rank the Han Chinese Dynasty along with Classical Greeks as early anatomists, and challenge "the widespread belief that there is no scientific foundation for the 'anatomy of acupuncture'." On the other hand, the Nebra Sky Disk Could be 1,000 Years Younger than Previously Believed. Not only that, but the celebrated German artifact may not possess as complicated symbolic meaning as once thought. The article explains how two prehistorians came to these conclusions and cast firm doubts upon even the location and context of the original find. (WM)

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