US EditionChildren Discover Upright Skeleton Near School, 5th Found This Month
Around 20 seated Gaul skeletons, a quarter of global finds, were uncovered near a Dijon school, dated 300–200 BC; causes of burial posture remain unclear, archaeologists said.
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Children discover upright skeleton near school, 5th found this month
Children at a primary school in Dijon, France, made an unusual archaeological discovery when they found a skeleton sitting upright in a circular pit near their campus, marking the fifth such find in the area this month, PEOPLE reports.
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der Standard DEOn the grounds of a French school millennia-old skeletons were found in sitting posture. They are not the first of their kind – what it has on it with the finds remained unclear until now
Children Find Skeleton Sitting Upright Next to a Playground — Marking the Fifth Similar Find This Month Alone
Four other skeletons were similarly found in upwards positions, all facing westwardGallic burial site in central Dijon, FranceCredit: Frédéric BOURIGAULT / AFP via GettyNEED TO KNOWYoung children found a skeleton sitting upright and sticking out of a "circular pit" near the Josephine Baker primary school in the French city of DijonThe find marked the latest in a series, as four other skeletons were found in similar situations just this month alo…
Mysterious ancient skeletons discovered sitting upright in France
Read: 3 min Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange new attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out the top of a circular pit. It is just the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city of Dijon that were mysteriously buried in a seated position while facing west. Scientists are trying to work out why the ancient and little-understood Gaul people chose to bury some of its …
While students at the Josephine Baker School in Dijon play above ground, archaeologists from the French National Institute for Archaeological Research (INRAP) uncover a frozen scene from the distant past beneath their feet: a human skeleton sits upright in a circular pit, its back to the eastern wall and its face turned west. It is one of five other similar tombs discovered in March – all from the Gallic period, around three hundred years BC. Ea…
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