90 Centuries Old Human Skeleton Discovered in Beijing
People's Daily Online
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Beijing (China):
An archaeological team, jointly set up by School of Archaeology and Museum Studies of the Peking University and Beijing Research Institute of Cultural Relics, has discovered recently an early New Stone Age human skeleton buried with bent limps that lived about 9,000 years ago, with more earlier human remains with traces of fire use in the North China area, following the discovery of an intact corpse in Donghulin Village of Zhaitang Town in Beijing's Mentouguo District in October 2003, reports the overseas edition of People's Daily on November 3. The deceased is a rare burial of bent limps.
The tomb faces the Qingshui River with backing on to a mountain slope, just to avoid attacks from northwest winds. In an about 1.2-meter-long tomb, there lies a skeleton about one meter long quietly. His or her head faces north with face towards east a little.
The head of the skeleton is intact. However, the skeleton posture is very strange, looking just like a baby in a mother's womb, in terminology, this is known as a burial with limps bent. With careful looking, one can see that there are crashed lines on the head of the decreased, but it remains intact basically.
Both hands of the dead locked in front of the chest. The outline of the skeleton from the belly above is very clear and its lower limps are pressed on arm bones vertically. It looks like a cross and the bones of its finger and feet nails are found nowhere. The pelvis is basically buried in yellow earth.
There are many possibilities for the burial, for instance, the decreased was bent and buried or the lower limps were bent back just after its death, explained Lu Zun'e, a famous archaeologist with Peking University.
The skeleton is later than that discovered in 2003, but also belongs to the early New Stone Age about 9,000 years ago, said Professor Zhao Chaohong with the school of Peking University and also leader of the team.
Nov 03, 2005
People's Daily Online
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Beijing (China):
An archaeological team, jointly set up by School of Archaeology and Museum Studies of the Peking University and Beijing Research Institute of Cultural Relics, has discovered recently an early New Stone Age human skeleton buried with bent limps that lived about 9,000 years ago, with more earlier human remains with traces of fire use in the North China area, following the discovery of an intact corpse in Donghulin Village of Zhaitang Town in Beijing's Mentouguo District in October 2003, reports the overseas edition of People's Daily on November 3. The deceased is a rare burial of bent limps.
The tomb faces the Qingshui River with backing on to a mountain slope, just to avoid attacks from northwest winds. In an about 1.2-meter-long tomb, there lies a skeleton about one meter long quietly. His or her head faces north with face towards east a little.
The head of the skeleton is intact. However, the skeleton posture is very strange, looking just like a baby in a mother's womb, in terminology, this is known as a burial with limps bent. With careful looking, one can see that there are crashed lines on the head of the decreased, but it remains intact basically.
Both hands of the dead locked in front of the chest. The outline of the skeleton from the belly above is very clear and its lower limps are pressed on arm bones vertically. It looks like a cross and the bones of its finger and feet nails are found nowhere. The pelvis is basically buried in yellow earth.
There are many possibilities for the burial, for instance, the decreased was bent and buried or the lower limps were bent back just after its death, explained Lu Zun'e, a famous archaeologist with Peking University.
The skeleton is later than that discovered in 2003, but also belongs to the early New Stone Age about 9,000 years ago, said Professor Zhao Chaohong with the school of Peking University and also leader of the team.
Nov 03, 2005
