Rio Tamisa and, in the background, the Westminster Palace in London
A new study has revealed that Londons lay corpses to the branches at the ages of bronze and iron. It is not perceived, however, why they did it.
Over the last century, archaeological investigations have removed from the Background of the Tamisa River, in London, hundreds of human bones.
A new study, at the end of January in the Antiquityrevealed that most skeletons found dates back to Bronze and Iron Ages.
The researchers analyzed more than 60 skeletons discovered in the Tamisa, with the aim of investigating when and why the corpses ended up in Rio.
Concluded that the bodies dated from 4000 AC to 1800 dc – A period of almost 6000 years. They also found most of the Bronze Age (2300 to 800 BC) and the Iron Age (800 BC to 43 AD).
Resolve mystery
However, reason whereby people deposited corpses in the remains a mystery.
“Human skeletons have been found quite regularly in the aquatic places of northwestern Europe, but the human bones of the Tamisa represent an exceptionally large set,” the main author of the study told the main author, Nichola arthur.
One of the first theories about these discoveries was that the corpses came from a Battle between Celts and Romans.
However, in the late twentieth century, experts suggested that most bodies came from Erosion of burials on the banks of the river and the victims of drowning.
“We can say with confidence that these do not seem to be just bones that have been accumulating in the river over time. There was really something significant to happen at the ages of bronze and iron, ”said Nichola Arthur.
Also curator of the London Natural History Museum suspicious that this was a ritual in northwestern Europe, in which prehistoric peoples intentionally deposited important remains in aquatic locations.
“Violence is a particularly common theme in prehistoric human remains of aquatic places,” said Arthur, including swamp bodies with evidence of violent deaths, and “We found standards of skeletal trauma in the bones of the human debris of the bread ”.
“Exploring exactly how the Tamisa human remains fit these practices is one of the next interesting steps of the project,” assumed the researcher.
