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Bronze age Britons made keepsakes from parts of dead relatives, archaeologists say
Pieces of bone were turned into ornaments, and may have been placed on display
Bronze age Britons remembered the dead by keeping and curating bits of their bodies, and even turning them into instruments and ornaments, according to new research on the remains.
- Ian Sample
- The Guardian
Archaeologists found that pieces of bone buried with the dead were often from people who had died decades earlier, suggesting their remains had been kept for…
“This is the first evidence we have for an established bronze age tradition of curating human remains for substantial lengths of time, over…