Murder Of An Ancient Family
11/18/08 - Interesting
“The family – who appear to have been slaughtered in a raid by a rival tribe – were identified from fragments of DNA in their skeletons. The boys were aged eight and four. Dr Alistair Pike, head of archaeology at the University of Bristol, who took part in the study, said: ‘It is the first time we can conclusively prove a family has been buried together. ‘Graves which have been discovered pre-dating this find show collections of maybe hundreds of skeletons thrown together. Whoever buried the family obviously knew they were family and deemed it important they were buried together facing one another.” w/ photos
