Archaeologists have unearthed a skeleton buried 7,000 years ago in the Polish town of Slomniki. The skeleton was found during a renovation of a town square.
According to the archaeologists, the skeleton was buried in loosely packed soil with a non-acidic chemical composition, which preserved it well. Pot remains were also found with the skeleton.
The skeleton’s burial place dates back to the New Stone Age, when farmers crossed the Carpathian Mountains of Central Europe to go to Poland. This happened in the sixth millennium BC.
“We still know very little about these farmers, their culture and burial practices,” Malgorzata Kot, professor of archeology at the University of Warsaw, told news website LiveScience.
She was not involved in the excavation of the skeleton, but calls it a very special discovery. “These farmers buried their dead in settlements or separate cemeteries, but they are very rare. Further research on this find may provide us with more information about the farmers of this era.”
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