Woman's Skeleton Found at Bottom of Prehistoric Well

FOXNews.com ^ | Wednesday, June 14, 2009 | AP via FOXNews.com

[NCDragon]

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Archeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday.

Pavlos Flourentzos, the nation's top antiquities official, said the 16-foot (5-meter) deep cylindrical shaft was found last month at a construction site in Kissonerga, a village near the Mediterranean island nation's southwestern coast.

After the well dried up it apparently was used to dispose trash, and the items found in it included the poorly preserved skeleton of the young woman, animal bone fragments, worked flints, stone beads and pendants from the island's early Neolithic period, Flourentzos said.

The skeleton could be as old as the well itself, but archeologists don't know how the girl died or when and why the skeleton was left there, he said. Radiocarbon dating found the well is between 9,000 to 10,500 years old, he said.

[SunkenCiv]

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[colorado tanker]

Maybe she was really, really thirsty. The well *is* dry, after all.

Went to the well once too often.

[ApplegateRanch]

Archeologists have discovered a water well in Cyprus that was built as long as 10,500 years ago, and the skeleton of a young woman at the bottom of it, an official said Wednesday.

Pavlos Flourentzos, the nation's top antiquities official, said the 16-foot (5-meter) deep cylindrical shaft

World's first attempt at a Sweet-16 party?

[ApplegateRanch]

Or, the well was abandoned after the water became rancid because there was a dead woman in it.

Ding, dong, bell,
Pussy's in the well!
Who put her in?
We swore to never tell.

[silverleaf]

very cold case!

[silverleaf]

or that the 12th imam will come back as a woman...

And boy will she be ticked when she has to wear a headscarf or be beaten by religious police..

[SunkenCiv]

:’D Well, that will make the censor’s head spin around.