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  • 4,000-year-old flowers found at Bronze Age dig

    12/17/2009 5:36:03 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 447+ views
    BBC ^ | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | unattributed
    Proof that pre-historic people placed bunches of flowers in the grave when they buried their dead has been found for the first time, experts have said. Archaeologists have discovered a bunch of meadowsweet blossoms in a Bronze Age grave at Forteviot, south of Perth... Pollen found in earlier digs had been thought to have come from honey, or the alcoholic drink mead but this find may finally rule that theory out. Dr Kenneth Brophy, from the University of Glasgow, said the flowers "don't look very much. Just about three or four millimetres across. But these are the first proof that...