Finding 2,500-Year-Old Bones (Ohio)

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 12-012007 | Theodore Decker

[misanthrope]

“A lot of times, we’re out digging empty holes,” he said.

Simply amazing. Empty holes.

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Blam. On the site beside the Scioto River, the archaeologists had found fire pits dating to about 550 B.C., shards of pottery, even traces of an ancient building... Only one burial has been confirmed so far, with a skeleton that appears to be largely intact, Weller said. Another spot appears to be the remains of a cremated person, and clues in the soil suggest that other people might have been buried nearby. "Possibly up to nine," Weller said... Weller focused on the latest site while walking along the Scioto. He noticed discolorations in the eroded bank that appeared, to his experienced eye, to be the cross-section of a pit of some kind. In the two months since then, the team has uncovered five fire pits, which served as heat sources and ovens for those who lived there... The team hasn't dated the human remains, but the nearby fire pits found at the same depth date to about 550 B.C. Cremations, interesting. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Fred Nerks]

http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Yarrow/00000025.htm

PARTIAL CREMATION.

Allied somewhat to cremation is a peculiar mode of burial which is supposed to have taken place among the Cherokees or some other tribe of North Carolina, and which is thus described by J. W Foster. [Footnote: Pre-Historic Races, 1873, p. 149.] ...

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Thanks!

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