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Childhood, Motherhood, and the Body in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Tides of History

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The Role of Repetitive Births in Bone Formation

Ancient DNA analysis is becoming a routine and we can trace every relationship between each buried individual in one cemetery. We could show that repeated births do actually change the bones as well. The other things that we looked at is of course that co-barrel individuals. So it seems the case that some women did die with their children directly but also that normally you don't do a whole lot of effort for a baby burial. If you have some sort of open grave relatively recently you would put the baby with the last person.

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