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 ...
People who traveled usually did it in large groups, commonly called hoards.
Hordes?
Prietess? What kind of priestess?
Some priestesses like those of Baal were HotToTrotters, aka temple prostitutes.
There could be hoards of hordes!
Well played.
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because anything “religious” today is supposed to be old fashioned.
The archaeology pages on Facebook talk about any item being “ritual” (it’s become a joke) so calling her a priestess makes sense!
Now the British trend is to decide that a skeleton is a migrant or from Africa because it supports current thoughts on immigration.
I was in Norway years ago (1979) at a language camp. Went on a hike as a group and came across this old guy on the trail. The Norwegian language instructors had a hard time talking with him - couldn’t understand him.
He lived in the valley in some remote hut, and was hiking up the trail in worn-out sneakers with some plastic grocery bags and goods from the small town at the base of the valley. He smiled and laughed at us with our heavy boots and packs.
The instructors told us how he had probably never been outside this small valley, and some valleys have their own dialect.
The recent findings that some ancient or medieval remains actually came from distant places, but the only two I've had flak about here on FR were Africans.
Lol! Except my nick is because I thought the name was cute and so named my cat.
A favorite cat, though.
I thought you were campaigning for a Scott Baio werewolf movie and couldn’t spell.
“Globetrotter”
That sounds raciss.
Lol.
That picture has survived really well from the Bronze age.
She could have ushered in the iron age.
Were they Legal or ILLEGALS, since they went between places...
hordes
Hordes who hoard.
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