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Posted on 03/03/2026 3:44:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A new method of studying the contents of soil samples has revealed Stone Age people in Sweden were buried in decorated fur-and-feather clothing.
More than seven millennia ago, Stone Age mourners in what is now Sweden buried a boy with a crown of woodpecker feathers and, in another grave, interred a woman with multicolored fur-and-feather footwear, a new study finds.
These details were unearthed thanks to a newly developed technique that can identify traces of hair and feathers in soil taken from ancient graves, the researchers said...
In the study, published Feb. 20 in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Kirkinen and colleagues detailed the evidence of perishable materials that they found in 35 burials at Skateholm, a Late Mesolithic archaeological site in southern Sweden near the Baltic Sea coast that hunter-gatherer groups used as a cemetery from 5200 to 4800 B.C...
Mammalian hairs were recovered from 20 graves, but only 25% of them could be matched to a type of animal, including otters, deer and cows. In one grave, however, the researchers found evidence of hairs from a lagomorph (mountain hare), a mustelid (weasel or stout), a bat and an owl, all recovered from the head area of a young adult male burial. Beads made from red-deer teeth that were also recovered from the head area suggest the young man was buried with decorative headgear.
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An artist's impression of the Skateholm burial island. In the foreground is a boy whose grave contained deer hair and possibly a fragment of a woodpecker feather.Image credit: Tom Björklund
Mountain hares terrorizing a small Arizona town in 1972.
Look like Laplanders.
Don't tell the archeologists on Oak Island or we'll never get to the bottom of it.
Stone Age kids were.... furries??
Because freezing is not a nice thing.
“””Don’t tell the archeologists on Oak Island or we’ll never get to the bottom of it. “”””
Watching that show is like watching cars rust. Just as exciting.
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LOL great movie!
LOL_ Sheeesh- 20 years of “Could it be?” LOL
They most likely were early Laplanders. The Germanic tribes didn’t arrive in Sweden until much later.
They look pretty much like the indigenous people encountered by Europeans when they reached North America the 16th and 17th centuries.... Imagine encountering people from 5200 to 4800 B.C. in the 16th century and vice versa.
Stone aged... Meets middle aged.
It must have been astounding.
Walter Lantz’s many multi great grandfather.
That is beautiful art. They have the look of the extinct European mesolithic people who were dark skinned and (often) blue eyed. I noticed the hanging carcasses in the trees. That was something the later Germanic tribes did as sacrifices ( including hanging human bodies in trees) I wonder if there is a find that shows this practice predates the Germans.
That’s a pretty creepy looking kid.
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