Hugging Neolithic Skeletons


	Hugging Neolithic Skeletons

KRMike

2-8-2007 2:32 PM

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archaeology, rare, skeleton, neolithic, italy

KRMike says:

Just brilliant. I don't know, a reminder about human's ability to be kind an caring? Or just funky bones.

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					Italy mystery of prehistoric hug
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				<DIV class="cap">The skeletons' bones were discovered interlaced </DIV>
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			</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed two skeletons thought to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old, locked in an embrace.</B>
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6338751.stm"><FONT size="2">The pair from the Neolithic period were discovered outside Mantua, about 40km (25 miles) south of Verona.
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</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6338751.stm"><DIV class="cap">The skeletons' bones were discovered interlaced </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6338751.stm"><FONT size="2">"It's an extraordinary case," said Ms Menotti.   "There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging - and they really are hugging," she told Reuters news agency.
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