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And while the jars themselves could be more than 3,000 years old, analysis of human remains suggest people were buried alongside these jars as recently as 700 or 800 years ago.
A recent study by Dr. Angelina Locker published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology implemented bioarchaeological methods to determine if the secondary burial remains found within a non ...
They're known as canopic jars. - [Afifi] Each burial have four canopic jars for organs of the deceased. - [Narrator] Each jar is topped with a different symbolic sculpture.
Sediment samples from beneath stone jars from two of the more than 120 recorded megalithic sites were obtained by a team led Dr Louise Shewan from the University of Melbourne, Associate Professor ...
The megalithic jar sites in Northern Laos comprise one to three-metre-tall carved stone jars, weighing up to 20 tonnes, dotted across the landscape, appearing alone or in groups of up to several ...
The burial was cut into one of the fortress's mudbrick walls and contained an infant likely less than a year old. The infant's body had been placed inside a ceramic storage jar or pot.
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