Posted on 11/17/2008 9:03:13 AM PST by BGHater
Scientists have uncovered the earliest evidence that Stone Age man lived in nuclear families.
An international team of researchers, including experts from the University of Bristol, used DNA testing to date the remains from four burial sites discovered in Germany in 2005.
The 4,600-year-old graves contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other, which was an unusual practice in Neolithic culture.
A group burial of a 4,600-year-old nuclear family, was discovered in Germany
One of the graves contained a female, a male and two children and the analysis revealed the researchers were a mother, father and their two sons aged around eight or nine and four or five years old.
This is the oldest molecular genetic evidence of a nuclear family in the world.
The burials, discovered and excavated at Eulau, Saxony-Anhalt, were also unusual for the way in which they were buried. The remains of 13 individuals were found in total and all had been interned simultaneously.
Several pairs of individuals were buried face-to-face with arms and hands interlinked and all the burials contained children ranging from new-borns up to 10 years of age and adults of around 30 years or older.
Many showed injuries that indicated they were the victims of a violent raid. One female had a stone projectile point embedded in one of her vertebra and another had skull fractures.
Several bodies also had defence injuries to the forearms and hands.
The researchers used state-of-the-art genetics and isotope techniques to reconstruct along with physical anthropology and archaeology.
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Buried or STEPPED ON while sleeping?
1)Did ACORN registered them to vote, yet?
2)Are you sure they were married? They could be 'living in sin'!!
3)Did anyone know where Clinton's relatives were back 4600 years ago?
Maybe the CLINTON’s had a part in this family’s death. Maybe they had some ‘INFO’ on one of the CLINTON’s ancestors!!
Sad.
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