4,800-year-old fossil of mother cradling baby found in Taiwan

[NWCorona]

"Archaeologists in Taiwan have found a 4,800-year-old human fossil of a mother holding an infant child in her arms, museum officials said on Tuesday.

The 48 sets of remains unearthed in graves in the Taichung area are the earliest trace of human activity found in central Taiwan. The most striking discovery among them was the skeleton of a young mother looking down at a child cradled in her arms.

“When it was unearthed, all of the archaeologists and staff members were shocked. Why? Because the mother was looking down at the baby in her hands,” said Chu Whei-lee, a curator in the Anthropology Department at Taiwan’s National Museum of Natural Science.""


http://m.hindustantimes.com/world/4-800-year-old-fossil-of-mother-cradling-baby-found-in-taiwan/story-DeZ2JSZIsPiPpBmMm0EWrO.html

[warrprayer]

1. Wow.

[AZ Mike]

2. Awesome!

A mere 1,200 years after the earth was created! Amazing!

[2naSalit]

3. Interesting

Not a lot of info there at the article but the three pictures are interesting. I wonder what killed them.

[NWCorona]

4. I wonder too and that picture of her looking down on her baby

Is both beautiful and morbid.

There's so much under our feet that we don't realize.

[Arugula Latte]

5. I was curious if it said it was a newborn or not.

If so, maybe they both died during the birth.

Just speculation.

[2naSalit]

9. Good point

I really wonder about it. The article said there were other children at the site. Maybe it was a grave site area for children and mothers who passed at birth. That's probably a more realistic speculation than many.

[Demonaut]

6. fossilized in 4800 years???

shitty reporting

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Wow, what a great find!

[joeybee12]

8. Incredible and very sad, too...knr