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A male skeleton found interred nearby is believed to be that of a younger man related to the Archer, as they shared a rare hereditary anomaly, calcaneonavicular coalition, fusing of the calcaneus and of the navicular tarsal (foot bones). This younger man, sometimes called the Archer's Companion, appears to have been raised in a more local ...
The burials are thought to date from around 2500 - 2200 BCE, [3] making them broadly contemporary with the Amesbury Archer who had been found the year before about half a kilometre to the south. [3] The broad date range is an artefact of the ranges of radiocarbon dates for different remains and archaeologists believe the grave was in use over a ...
The Stonehenge Archer (c. 2330 BC - c. 2300 BC [1]) is the name given to a Bronze Age man whose body was discovered in the outer ditch of Stonehenge. Unlike most burials in the Stonehenge Landscape , his body was not in a barrow , although it did appear to have been deliberately and carefully buried in the ditch.
Archaeologists found 50 Viking-era skeletons in Åsum, Denmark.. Dating back to the 9th or 10th century, the graves are evidence of international trade. The area's growth was influenced by these ...
An excavation at England’s oldest hotel revealed 24 skeletons and a mix of additional bones, dating to over 1,000 years ago, buried in the hotel garden. The Old Bell Hotel has been continuously ...
The USS Amesbury was at the invasion of Normandy in World War II. Intimate artifact from warship sunk off Key West found stashed in piece of furniture Skip to main content
The study also found that the Bell Beaker arrivals in Neolithic Britain had significantly higher genetic variants associated with light skin and eye pigmentation than the local population, but low frequencies of the SNP associated with lactase persistence in modern Europeans. [4] The Amesbury Archer, Stonehenge, England, c. 2300 BC. Salisbury ...
The skeleton of a Bronze Age woman is set to be archived in a museum after being unearthed at a Kent building site. The well-preserved remains were discovered as work started on a site earmarked ...