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"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 Taiwans 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
(4,734 posts)AZ Mike
(468 posts)A mere 1,200 years after the earth was created! Amazing!
2naSalit
(86,308 posts)Not a lot of info there at the article but the three pictures are interesting. I wonder what killed them.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Is both beautiful and morbid.
There's so much under our feet that we don't realize.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)If so, maybe they both died during the birth.
Just speculation.
2naSalit
(86,308 posts)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
(8,914 posts)shitty reporting