Mummified bodies pickled in bog water, Carpentry dates back to Mesolithic
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The bodies of a man, a woman and a child, excavated from a bronze age site on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, were mummified by submersion in a peat bog, according to a report in the autumn issue of Antiquity.
The bodies were gutted, then pickled for months in acid bog water and kept for up to a century before final burial under the homes of their descendants, said a team of archaeologists and scientists.
The bodies were buried around 3,000 years ago, under the floors of round stone houses that were continuously inhabited for up to 1,000 years.
Another Antiquity report suggests that Carpentry dates back to Mesolithic. To date, only limited evidence exists for carpentry in hunter-gatherer contexts in Europe. The paper considers new evidence emerging from the former Soviet Union, including a remarkable iconic carving.
It has recently been suggested that there is evidence for early prehistoric carpentry from the well-known Mesolithic site of Star Carr in England (Mellars & Dark 1998). This evidence took the form of a number of timbers identified and sampled during excavations in 1985 and 1989.
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