4,000-Year-Old Skeletons: A Mother’s Last Embrace
Images of skeletons from the Lajia site in China’s Qinghai province are captivating. The painstaking excavation and pedestaling of the bones reveal adults and children in a 4,000-year-old embrace. But while these images have caught the media’s attention today, the archaeological site has been excavated since 1999 by archaeologists primarily from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Qinghai Provincial Institute of Antiquity and Archaeology. By Kristina Killgrove The Lajia site is associated with the Qijia culture, dating from the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age, and is located in the Guanting Basin...
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