Archaeologists are trying to solve the mystery of a girl who was buried hundreds of years ago with at least one finches in her mouth.
During the 1967 and 1968 excavations, the skeleton was discovered by archaeologist Waldemar Cimilevsky in the Tunelwierki cave in southern Poland, but the burial has not been analyzed in detail so far.New arrival Radiocarbon dating It shows that the girl died about 300 years ago.
Europeans stopped burying their dead in caves during the Middle Ages, and the burial of this girl became very rare.
“Cave burials are not common in European historic times,” the team of researchers wrote in a paper published online in a German journal on May 29. Praehistorische Zeitschrift (Prehistoric journal). “As a result, the discovery of a post-medieval burial of a child buried with at least one bird’s head at the mouth of the Tunnel Wierki Cave is an exceptional discovery.”
