28 March 2022

SCIENCE BRINGS YOU DATA ON MEDIEVAL WANDERERS ; PEOPLE FROM A 6th CENTURY SCOTLAND BURIAL

I love this!  UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN - THE MEDIEVAL WANDERER

From the 6th century, the mystery of skeletal remains of nine adults and five infants found in what would have once been the latrine of a Roman bath, has been a scientific challenge and marvel!  Using biochemical analysis of bone, scientists have learned that the early diets of some of them indicate they were living far from where they grew up when they died.  A woman and infant were murdered for sure.  This article also has the image of what he would have looked like, based on scientific methods of facial reconstruction.