An ancient and well-preserved skeleton – potentially a remnant of a ritual sacrifice practiced over 5,000 years ago – was discovered by archeologists in Denmark.
, had been excavating on the site of a planned housing development in the Egedal Municipality, near Copenhagen.
After digging further into the dirt, Dedenroth-Schou and his colleagues were able to find nearly all the bones from both legs, a pelvis, and a jaw. It is understood that bogs played a significant role for the ancient people of Northern Europe for the resources they provided and were believed to be"the gateway between the world of mankind and the world of the gods," according to theThe bog men unearthed could have been offerings to the gods between 4,300 BCE and 600 BCE – or between the Neolithic and Iron Ages.
"The find fits into a proven tradition of ritually burying both objects, people, and animals in the bog. This has been widely done throughout ancient times, and this is most likely a victim of such a ritual," Struve said in a press release.Much about the skeleton – including the sex, where the person lived, and when the person died – remains unknown.that there was evidence that the body was from the Neolithic because"traditions of human sacrifices date back that far.
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