Posted on 04/08/2019 1:57:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In two previous studies, researchers analyzed isotopes (an element that has a different number of neutrons than normal in its nucleus) in the women's remains, so they could piece together where the women had lived. But now, new research finds that these analyses were likely contaminated by modern agricultural lime... However, the researchers of the original studies are standing by their work...
Both Bronze Age women are well known by archaeologists; the remains of Egtved Girl (the possible priestess) and Skrydstrup Woman were found in Denmark in 1921 and 1935, respectively. More recently, the Freis and their colleagues found that both women were first-class travelers, results they reported in journals in 2015 and 2017. They found that Egtved Girl spent her early years outside of Denmark, likely in southern Germany, and traveled back and forth between Denmark and another country (likely her birthplace) during the last two years of her life before dying at around age 18 in what is now known as the village of Egtved, Denmark. Meanwhile, Skrydstrup Woman likely came to Denmark around age 13, and was buried at a mound at Skrydstrup when she died four years later...
When the researchers applied isotopic values that were unaffected by agricultural lime to the isotopes found in Egtved Girl and Skrydstrup Woman, they got very different results than the prior studies. "It is most plausible that these individuals originated close to their burial sites and not far abroad as previously suggested," the researchers wrote in the study. In fact, these women possibly stayed within 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) of their burial spots, the researchers found.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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Tests Reveal Amesbury Archer “King Of Stonehenge’ Was A Settler From The Alps
Popular Science | 2-8-2004
Posted on 02/08/2004 12:40:04 PM PST by blam
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Did she look like Bjork?
But was she a bogtrotter?
One looked like Connie Nielsen, the other like Iben Hjejle.
Priestess?
Why do archaeologist always hang some religious significance on their find?...........
“Teenage Priestess from the Bronze Age Was Probably No Globetrotter”
i’ll bet she dribbled up a storm.
Why Sweet Georgia Brown!
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I was a little skeptical when I read about her purported travels, but not enough to raise a red flag. I had assumed that they have controlled for contamination, I guess not.
Travel back then was very difficult and even more dangerous. People who traveled usually did it in large groups, commonly called hoards.
Right - and every small statue has something to do with sex.
Globtrotters didn’t take on female players until 1985. AD that is.
I just watched a Youtube video about how the Spaniards came and took gold from there ancient peoples for their Christian God, (said with a sneer).
Same vid reported on their child sacrificing.
Tell me again how the end of these civilizations is bad?
Yes, a fertility god, always.....................
There's info about that at the museum link a little way up the topic.
She probably didn’t know Meadowlark then.
Did anyone know that the earth was shaped like a globe back in the Bronze Age?
Pretty sure she was named Georgia Brown, though. She was engaged at the time of death, and the room which would have been where they spent their honeymoon was renamed the Georgia Brown Suite. Okay, I'll stop now.
So much for your FR nick, then.
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