Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 11/16/2020 11:10:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv
To determine at what age the babies died, the researchers looked at each baby's top second incisor. The team paid special attention to the so-called "newborn line," a dark line in the tooth enamel that separates the enamel formed prenatally from that formed after birth, Teschler-Nicola said.
Those newborn lines, as well the infants' skeletal development, suggested the twins were either full, or nearly full-term, babies. It appears that the infants' hunter-gatherer group buried the first twin, then reopened the grave when they buried his brother.
This finding confirms the cultural-historical practice of reopening a grave for the purpose of reburial, which had never been documented before in a Paleolithic burial, the researchers said.
The team also analyzed chemical elements, including isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and barium, in the tooth enamel, revealing that each of the twins was breastfed. Even though the twins' cousin survived for three months, "stress lines" in his teeth suggest that he had feeding difficulties, perhaps because his mother had a painful breast infection known as mastitis, or maybe because she didn't survive the birth.
It's unknown exactly why these infants died, but the deaths of these twins and their cousin were likely painful events for this Paleolithic hunter-gatherer group, who set up camp and buried their babies by the Danube so long ago. "The babies were obviously of particular importance to the group and highly respected and esteemed," Teschler-Nicola told Live Science. The extraordinary burials "seems to imply that the death of the babies was a great loss for the community and their survival."
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Is that a 31,000 year-old red blanket for each?
Babies were precious.
Unless your women are kept at a certain weight they will not ovulate, then you have to keep them fed properly to ensure a healthy baby, followed by a painful, bloody and dangerous birth where the tribe must stand guard against predators.
These might have been the only three viable births that year.
If they lost the mother as well it would have been a staggering blow to a group that was probably of about 30-50 people.
Tomax and Xamot, the truly first generation.
3 month old babies do not have teeth
“3 month old babies do not have teeth”
Even the permanent teeth start development before borth.
What is most remarkable about the find is that they both voted in Philadelphia.
Sorry, it's been a slow week, regarding posting anything. Here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping:
Thanks Red Badger.
Meet Cathy who's lived most everywhere,
from Zanzibar to Berkley Square,
but Patti's only seen the sights
a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights
what a crazy pair....
LOL
I’d love to see the hat these people pick the age out of.
If I find a chicken bone buried in the ground how do I know the age and what chicken place it come from?
KFC,POPEYES, ETC.....
They don't pick a number out of a hat. That's the DNC's election fraudsters who do that.
Red was the symbol of life to them in the Upper Paleolithic and they are known as the Red Ocher People in Europe and the Red Paint People in North America as they covered everything in red ocher.
Yep. Already logged as rona deaths and the money collected.
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