An approximately 5000 year old stone age grave has been discovered on the construction site for a new residential area in Hanau, Germany. A total of 18 tombs have been found on the site a few weeks ago with the Remains of 24 people, said Sascha Piffko, the head of the competent excavation company Spau of rock mountain. Earlier, several media had reported about it.
A burial will be especially important, because there are the same six individuals of beige had been, and this is unusual. Including a woman with two small children. Two skulls were so close together that the teeth touched. “It looks as if you are kissing,” said Piffko. He hopes that in the bones still Rest-is DNA to be able to find out more about the causes of death to find out. If the successful, but it is still unclear.
“exceptional archaeological discovery”
“finds Betsmove of graves from this period are very rare,” said Piffko. The age of the tombs also showed there discovered tomb-additions. The bones were near the surface. The Hanau’s Lord mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) had spoken in a message from Monday of an “exceptional archaeological discovery” of graves from the late Neolithic to the third Millennium before Christ.
As the stone age is the first Chapter in the history of mankind, the name of the era received, because early man knew not of metal processing and only with stone tools, worked. The early stone age of hunters and gatherers began in Africa more than two million years ago, the Neolithic, the already knew animal husbandry, Arable farming, and the first copper processing, has ended in Europe before 4000 years. A well-known representative of the time from the now, apparently, the graves are from Hanau, Germany, is Ötzi, whose mummified body was found in 1991 on the Similaun glacier in the ötztal Alps.
25 years after the discovery of the glacier mummy-Fund of The curse of Ötzi
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