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Train work uncovers Bronze Age bounty
The Local ^ | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | unattributed

Posted on 10/20/2009 4:26:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

A massive dig along 22 kilometres of a new high-speed train route in Saxony-Anhalt has revealed a spectacular discovery of 55,000 artefacts -- among them skeletons that date back to the Bronze Age. The eastern German state's office of archaeology announced this week that Deutsche Bahn’s construction of a new Intercity-Express (ICE) train route between Erfurt and Leipzig has proven to be a bonanza for a team of 150 experts, who have been working since September 2008 to examine some 75 hectares across the Querfurt plate near Oechlitz. The fertile region between two valleys is known to have been settled for at least 7,500 years along what was an important trade route, but the Deutsche Bahn project was a special opportunity to explore the evidence below ground, Dr. Alfred Reichenberger from the state's archaeology authority told The Local on Tuesday... Among the artefacts uncovered at more than 15 sites in the area are evidence of settlement and graves -- some of which were used repeatedly over the years. Near Bad Lauchstädt archaeologists found a farm from the Unetice culture they dated back to between 2200 and 1600 BC. A small grave nearby revealed a woman buried in a sitting position -- which the state authority said could only be explained after further analysis. The oldest artefacts pulled up at the dig are 7,300-year-old objects from the Linear Pottery culture, considered to be the oldest farming culture in central Europe. Meanwhile Reichenberger reported that the digs also revealed the largest number of gravesites from the so-called Bell-Beaker culture (2800-1900 BC) ever found.

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To: SunkenCiv
If the Paleolithic ancestry theory is correct, you have 40,000 years of humans living in that area. That's a lot of sites, potentially.
21 posted on 10/20/2009 6:01:44 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: SunkenCiv
Maybe, but keep your shoes and saxon.

Weak. And yours took me a minute. I'm gettin' old.

22 posted on 10/20/2009 6:15:20 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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To: ExGeeEye

I’d better, I’m Angle deep in artifacts right now. ;’)


23 posted on 10/20/2009 6:22:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: mysterio

It would be deeper than this, but it’s probably even much older than 40K.

Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ]
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Posted on 06/15/2009 8:19:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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24 posted on 10/20/2009 6:26:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
Try this one:

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25 posted on 10/20/2009 8:19:52 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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To: ExGeeEye

:’)


26 posted on 10/21/2009 8:00:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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