GRAVE FIND: Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate

Picture shows detail from tomb 14 with a necklace of bronze pendants (8th-7th century BC), undated. The discovery has been made at the Kopilo site in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Note: Licensed photo. (ÖAW- ÖAI, M. Gavranovic/Newsflash) Picture shows detail from tomb 14 with a necklace of bronze pendants (8th-7th century BC), undated. The discovery has been made at the Kopilo site in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Note: Licensed photo. (ÖAW- ÖAI, M. Gavranovic/Newsflash)
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26 August 2022
A necropolis found in Bosnia and Herzegovina has revealed a high mortality rate in the prehistoric period after archaeologists discovered 46 graves and 53 individuals from the Bronze and Iron Ages. Human remains from the Kopilo Cemetery - discovered by archaeologists from the Austrian...