Bronze age Britons crafted Ornaments of burnished bones in remembrance of their deceased kins
After examining the ancient bones exhumed from the 28 sites across Britain, researchers from the University of Bristol revealed that at many sites people were buried with the artefacts carved out of bones, as reported by The Guardian. One such remarkable find was a 37,000-year-old human thigh bone that was polished and carved into a musical instrument, discovered in a grave near the prehistoric Stonehenge in Wiltshire, southwestern England.
At another site, in Windmill Fields, Stockton-on-Tees, remains of another woman were discovered , along with skulls and limb bones from at least three other people who are believed to have died 60 to 170 years before her.
As per the dissertation of the study, which was made in collaboration between the University of Bristol and the Natural History Museum, London, published in the journal Antiquity, denizens of Britain crafted the carcass of their kins into ornaments and instruments in order to immortalise their remembrances in Bronze Age, between 3000 BC and 1200 BC. Thomas Booth, the University of Bristol archaeologist who carbon dated the remains, said it can be linked with some customs observed today, such as keeping the ashes after cremation in an urn.
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