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A stone box grave is a coffin of stone slabs arranged in a rectangular shape, into which a deceased individual was placed. Common materials used for construction of the graves were limestone and shale, both varieties of stone which naturally break into slab-like shapes. The materials for the bottom of the graves often varies.
The stone coffins — massive and elaborate — were hard to miss. Some of the 600-year-old remains found in a sarcophagus at the monastery. Uncover more archaeological finds
Tetrapod fossils have been found at it. [2] The site is one of the most abundant sources of trackways of its age. [3] Treptichnus and Arenicolites have been found at the site. [4] The 2016 book Footprints in Stone by Ronald J. Buta and David C. Kopaska-Merkel is about the site and its discovery. [1] In 2012 they wrote a guidebook for the site. [5]
Sea turtle fossils are also commonly found in the Cretaceous rocks of Alabama and in 2018, a new species of Peritresius was named based on Alabama fossils. [11] Areas of Alabama not covered by seawater were home to subtropical forests. [1] Armored and duckbilled dinosaurs, like Lophorhothon [12] and Eotrachodon, [13] inhabited the state, as did ...
The coffin was so heavy in part because it was filled with a substance called white gypsum, which is a mineral used in plaster-making, archaeologists found. Experts place the coffin between 43 A.D ...
A team of archaeologists working on a road upgrade project have uncovered a Roman stone coffin weighing the same as a small caravan. The casket, which weighed 118 stones (750kg), was discovered ...
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Alabama, in the United States
The Bessemer Site, also known as the Talley Mounds and the Jonesboro Mounds, is a South Appalachian Mississippian culture archaeological site located near the confluence of Halls Mill Creek and Valley Creek (a tributary of the Black Warrior River), west of downtown Bessemer in Jefferson County, Alabama. The site was occupied in the early ...