[SunkenCiv]

Wederath-Belginum cemetery.

Credit: Kulturzentrum Belginum Archäologiepark

[ComputerGuy]

I’ve spent a lot of time on ancestrydotcom these last 5 years or so. The number of women who died in childbirth is staggering. And depressing. In one case, I found a three-generation string. That was early 1600s in the Jamestown area.

[fella]

Up until about 150 years ago medicine was almost none existent for women and children died in great numbers. The Hollyweird version of the past is as fake as it can be.

Some historians think the reason Elisabeth I stayed chaste was her fear of childbirth.

[KrisKrinkle]

“The lack of preserved bones within the 15 inhumations...”

“On the other hand, fortunately, cremations are mostly well-preserved.”

“A total of 1,689 cremains were dated and studied...”

They seem to have gotten a lot or relatively detailed information from cremains...bodies that were burned to ash.

[Sequoyah101]

"with over half the cremations for both the Iron Age and Roman Period representing females below 40 years of age."

How can anyone tell anything from ashes?

[clearcarbon]

"Cemetery study reveals how daily life changed from the Iron Age to the Roman period"

Still changing.