Researchers studying 77 children from Bronze Age cemeteries in Serbia found that burial positions often differed by biological sex, suggesting gender-linked funerary customs were observed during childhood about 4,000 years ago
- In Bronze Age communities of present-day Serbia, boys and girls did not have the same burial treatments as adult men and women.
- Even children who died at a young age received different burial treatment, with rules that distinguished males from females, with the direction of their heads and position of their bodies following different traditions.
- A new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, which analysed 77 children and young individuals from two Bronze Age cemeteries, has confirmed this practice using proteins preserved in ancient teeth.
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- In Bronze Age communities of present-day Serbia, boys and girls did not have the same burial treatments as adult men and women.
- Even children who died at a young age received different burial treatment, with rules that distinguished males from females, with the direction of their heads and position of their bodies following different traditions.
- A new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, which analysed 77 children and young individuals from two Bronze Age cemeteries, has confirmed this practice using proteins preserved in ancient teeth.
Sources: Times of India