2600 year old tomb of Noblewoman from Celtic southern Germany

[Angela]

See:
http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2017/01/treasures-from-2600-year-old-grave-of.html

"The grave site, which was moved to a lab in Stuttgart in its entirety in order for the burial chamber to be studied, contains the remains of a woman adorned in gold, bronze, amber and jet jewellery, and about half a metre away from her, the remains of a girl thought to have been between two and three years old."

"lose similarities between the gold broaches worn by the woman and the child suggest that there may have been a familial relationship between the woman and child, archaeologists have reported in a paper published in the journal Antiquity.'

It's unusual that the grave was robbed of such precious objects, but it may be because the area of her particular grave either was or became bog like.

I'm unclear whether they'll be able to get dna from the mother.

"The waterlogged, low-oxygen conditions also preserved the grave from degradation. Biological remains have been retrieved from the woman's skeleton, but there are not enough remains from the child to do a DNA test, Krausse said. Only the enamel from the child's teeth now remains."

The pictures are pretty spectacular.

 

[bicicleur 2]

it is beautiful
and it all remained hidden for robbers and thieves all the time

let's hope we'll get some DNA

 

[Angela]

There's been an update on the news about the Celtic noblewoman from southern Germany.

See:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5230-170126-germany-celtic-tomb

"BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY—Scientists have continued to excavate a burial chamber removed in an 88-ton soil block from the Heuneburg hill fort in 2005, according to a report in Live Science. State archaeologist Dirk Krausse said the waterlogged grave contained the remains of an elite Celtic woman who died in 583 B.C.—a date determined through study of the tree rings of the planks of the chamber floor. Among the artifacts were a petrified sea urchin and an ammonite, suggesting that the woman was “a kind of priestess,” according to Krausse. Other items include gold, bronze, and amber jewelry, and poorly preserved textiles and furs. A computed tomography scan of a bronze sheet at the feet of a second woman in the tomb revealed traces of an iron horse bit. The bronze sheet may have been another piece of horse gear worn over the forehead. An ornament made of boars’ tusks and bronze pendants that would have jingled when worn on a horse’s chest was also recovered. The style of the jewelry resembles artifacts found in cultures to the south of the Alps, and suggests that there had been more trade between the two regions than had been previously thought."

I thought we did know that there was trade between the two areas, no?

 

[LeBrok]

Sweet to nail the date so exact. Now we need her autosomal.

 

[Odysseus]

The Iron age Celts , Etruscans and Germans were all over Europe before the Romans came and invaded everything.

 

[I1a3_Young]

Beautiful jewelry with wonderful small details. I wonder if the number and arrangements of the "jinglers" have a certain significance.