Woman’s skeleton found at Sedgeford dig sheds light on Norfolk 4,000 years ago

EDP24.co.uk ^ | 7-4-2011 | Chris Bishop

[Renfield]

Curled up in her burial pit with her amber beads, an ancient woman’s remains show our ancestors farmed a lush Norfolk valley thousands of years earlier than previously believed.

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“It was a total surprise to us,” he said. “You don’t bury people anywhere other than near where they live, so what we can say is that people were farming the land here 4,000 years ago.”....

[Renfield]

The 4,000-year-old woman's skeleton found by the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) last year.

[Renfield]

Neolithic Britain ping.

[humblegunner]

Damn that Casey Anthony!

[calex59]

“You don’t bury people anywhere other than near where they live,

This is a stupid statement, if you were a nomadic tribe you buried people where they were when they died, whether it was near home or not.

[WKUHilltopper]

“This is a stupid statement, if you were a nomadic tribe you buried people where they were when they died, whether it was near home or not.”

Yep...

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Indeed. And it is just such statements, spoken with surety and smooth rhetoric so that they are appealing, that have brainwashed so many college students.

People are being deliberately starved of the training and education they need to perform critical analysis.

[gusty]

Did Kevin “Two” Weeks lead them to the body.

[Ciexyz]

Marvelous find.

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[Battle Axe]

Good heavy bone?? or did some chemical reaction add something to it?

[Sawdring]

This is a stupid statement, if you were a nomadic tribe you buried people where they were when they died, whether it was near home or not.

If your nomadic then you live in a general area. Perhaps you are collecting eggs bye the ocean during the spring time when the gulls roost or you could be in the highlands during the summer to collect berries and follow prey. So when you are nomadic, wherever you are is where you live and when you die you are always close to your home, unless your remains are to be interred elsewhere like Indian burial mounds.

[sodpoodle]

Ooooooooooops!

A day late and a dollar short;)

I see we have another EDP reader.

[calex59]

Not true, nomads cover huge areas of land each year following the food. Where ever they die is "near home" alright but simply because they found a body there doesn't mean a city was thriving at that time. Nomads don't build cities. The whole point of the article was to state that that city had been the center of human culture many years longer than originally thought, simply because they found one grave. My statement called them on it, because nomadic tribes buried people where ever they happened to be at the time.

Since only one body was found, I assume that they were passing by and buried this woman where she fell. Were a city present at that time many other bodies or pieces of them would have been found by now.

[Sawdring]

I can’t get to the article.

[SunkenCiv]

You’re not alone. Since this was found a year ago, the dead woman is 4,001.