The corpse was first discovered in 2001 during the excavation under the foundation of a house estimated 3000-year-old in South Uist, an island in the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. The building is one of three houses round in Cladh Hallan, a prehistoric village that is named the same as the modern cemetery is located nearby.
The first inhabited place in the Bronze Age from 2200 BC to 800 BC - scientists excavating the site to delve deeper into the era in Britain, where until now only little is known.
The researchers found the skeleton of a teenage girl and a three year old son at the venue. Nevertheless, two bodies look very strange - men and women were found in the abdominal position very closely as if they were tied with a first loud, reminded the researchers of the "binding mummy" conducted in South America and elsewhere in the world. The mummified corpse apparently intentionally, the first evidence of mummification process in ancient times besides Egypt.
Mummy Frankeistein
Evidence of incorporation mummy
Evidence of this mummification lies in how all the bones in both the bodies are still "connected" or in the same position as during life. Tendon and the possibility of skin still attached to one another when they were buried.The age of carbon from the environment around the skeleton indicates that the bodies are buried 600 years after they died. To prevent rotting corpse after a long time, they must have deliberately preserved, unlike the dead animals were buried on the spot, left to rot and decompose.
Mineral alteration in the outer layer of the bones show that they were buried in acidic environments, such as those found in peat swamps. Exposure to the turf for a year or more will mmembuat they become mummified, by stopping microbes to decompose the bodies that are essentially the same as the process of tanning the skin of animals.
Ancient writings mention that the embalming process is done in prehistoric Europe, not only in Egypt. For example, the ancient philosophers of Greek origin, Poseidonius, writing in about 100 BC, "visited Gaul and noted that the ancient peoples of Europe (Celts) membalsemi heads of their victims in oil fir and store them in a crate," said researcher Mike Parker-Pearson, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield in England.
Surprisingly, men's skeleton consists of the bones of three different people, which consists of the torso and legs of a man, the skull and neck of another man, and the lower jaw of the other bodies, the possibility of a woman.
The researchers concluded that the findings of this corpse-like Frankenstein (mixture of several bodies) by analyzing his skeleton - for example, evidence of arthritis seen in the bones of the neck, but not on the entire spine, indicating that the framework is derived from other bodies.
And also, the lower jaw teeth still intact, while the upper jaw almost all his teeth had dated, and the condition of the teeth of the lower jaw shows that the teeth are never interacted with a series of teeth on its upper jaw, which seems to come from another man.
To determine whether the woman's skeleton was also a composite, the researchers analyzed ancient DNA from the skull, lower jaw, right upper arm and right thigh bone. It was found that the lower jaw, arm bone and femur are all from different people. Data from the skull inconclusive. (Curiously, the two front teeth in the upper jaw removed and placed in his hands.)
The joint seems composed between 1260 BC and 1440 BC, while the second joint arranged between 1130 BC and 1310 BC. "There are similarities, but chances are the statistics show that they are arranged in a different era," said Parker-Pearson.
Although the combined parts of the body like Frankenstein may not be deliberate, "the evidence makes it seem like intentional," added Parker-Pearson. Mummification began in England in 1500 BC "in a time when the ownership of land - mostly more communal and not private - was marked by the construction of large-scale land systems," said Parker-Pearson told LiveScience.
"The ownership of the land depended on ancestral claims, so perhaps the" planting "of their ancestors is a shape resembling a legal document in prehistoric times."
"Combining other parts of the body ancestors into a single person can demonstrate the incorporation of the family and their different lineages," added Parker-Pearson. "Maybe this is a start to form a housing complex inhabited by many different families."
Mummy? English?
When the bones were first discovered, Parker-Pearson admits, "Some archaeologists was skeptical," as mummification in the British Bronze Age is rarely known. Even Parker-Pearson never any doubt these findings, so he reluctantly studied these bones. "But since then, we apply a scientific method, in which the analysis of ancient DNA is the latest," he said."Together with archaeological evidence from excavations, the results of the analysis found indisputable evidence of mummification and recombination corpse."
"I think it has nothing to do with ancient Egypt or other distant civilizations," said Parker-Pearson describes his invention. "Mummification is quite easy to do yourself, and surprisingly has been used on a small scale, in traditional societies around the world in this century."
In fact, the idea that the practice of mummification made the Egyptians spread to other places is not trusted by more than 50 years ago.
"Therefore, these results completely change our thinking about the handling of the bodies that carried out on British prehistoric times," said Parker-Pearson. "Archaeologists can now identify other similar examples because the door was already open to that direction - which had not previously been unthinkable."
For example, two frameworks are considered human mummies from Down Farm in Dorset were excavated by Martin Green in 2009, and even drill a hole in their long bones, suggesting that their limbs was tied to one another.
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