2,000-year-old Polish skeletons to undergo analysis

More than 120 skeletons recovered from a Roman-period necropolis in Poland are set to undergo analysis to determine things like their diets and origins.

The biggest surprise for the researchers was finding two gigantic tombs – the largest from this period known to date in Kujawy, which were hailed “princely graves”. Both had impressive stone-earth burial chambers, the depth of which exceeded 2 m from the surface of the field today. Archaeologists speculate that originally the tombs were also covered with barrows. Unfortunately, the two structures had already been robbed in prehistory. Surprising for archaeologists were the findings of preliminary anthropological analyses: in one of the tombs, two people were buried: an adult – over 20 years old, and a 14 years old child, and in the second tomb – a 14-15 years old child.

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