Info Of The Archaeologists Sorting Out Orkney's Neolithic Bones

Archaeologists excavating Neolithic tombs inwards Orkney are used to finding jumbled collections of bones

A novel study could potentially transform our agreement of the means Neolithic people dealt amongst their dead.

Archaeologists excavating Neolithic tombs inwards Orkney are used to finding jumbled collections of bones that appear unconnected.

Now, operate past times Dr Rebecca Crozier, from the University of Aberdeen, suggests whole bodies were placed inwards the chambered structures.

She said they could accept been dismembered later existence buried.

She told BBC Radio Orkney: "What we're trying to create is await at all the bones together with endeavor together with empathise why they are inwards the mess that nosotros finding them in.

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