Info Of Roadworks Uncover Bronze Historic Catamenia Urn Burial Site Inwards Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Construction operate along the hereafter A14 highway betwixt Dolle too Lüderitz has revealed an urn burial soil from the belatedly Bronze Age.

More than 100 cremation burials dating to some 800 BC convey been works life here, reports master copy archeologist Susanne Friederich, caput of the region for the preservation of archaeological monuments at the State Office for Archaeology too Monument Conservation.

"The house evidently served every bit a 'cemetery' for several villages, whose remains were likewise works life nearby", she said

"The deceased were burned on pyres. Their relatives placed their ashes too os remains inwards urns, together amongst anything which had non been destroyed past times fire, such every bit bronze clasps or jewellery made of metal," digging leader Anette Schubert explains.

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