Info Of Medieval Villagers Mutilated The Dead To Destination Them Rising, Written Report Finds

The Wharram Percy earthworks surface area equally it looks today. 

Photograph: Pete Horne/Historic England/PA

A report past times archaeologists has revealed for certain people inwards medieval Yorkshire were together with hence afraid of the dead they chopped, smashed together with burned their skeletons to brand for certain they stayed inwards their graves.

The question published past times Historic England together with the University of Southampton may stand upwards for the kickoff scientific prove inwards England of attempts to forestall the dead from walking together with harming the living – nevertheless mutual inwards folklore inwards many parts of the world.

The archaeologists who studied a collection of human bones – including the remains of adults, teenagers together with children excavated to a greater extent than than one-half a century ago, together with dated dorsum to the menses betwixt the 11th together with 14th century – rejected gruesome possibilities including cannibalism inwards times of famine, or the massacre of outsiders. The cutting marks were inwards the incorrect house for butchery, together with isotope analysis of the teeth showed that the people came from the same surface area equally the villagers of Wharram Percy inwards North Yorkshire – a i time flourishing hamlet which had been completely deserted past times the early on 16th century.

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