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  • Teenage Priestess from the Bronze Age Was Probably No Globetrotter

    04/08/2019 1:57:58 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 38 replies
    LiveScience ^ | March 18, 2019 | Laura Geggel
    In two previous studies, researchers analyzed isotopes (an element that has a different number of neutrons than normal in its nucleus) in the women's remains, so they could piece together where the women had lived. But now, new research finds that these analyses were likely contaminated by modern agricultural lime... However, the researchers of the original studies are standing by their work... Both Bronze Age women are well known by archaeologists; the remains of Egtved Girl (the possible priestess) and Skrydstrup Woman were found in Denmark in 1921 and 1935, respectively. More recently, the Freis and their colleagues found that...