Kristina Killgrove is an archaeologist with specialties in ancient human skeletons and science communication. Her academic research has appeared in numerous scientific journals, while her news stories and essays have been published in venues such as Forbes, Mental Floss and Smithsonian.
A"stunning" tomb found on an isolated moor in southwest England could help archaeologists understand what life was like 4,000 years ago in the Bronze Age.
The cist tomb was found in a small wetland area within a larger wooded landscape on Cut Hill, which, at 1,978 feet , is one of the highest peaks on Dartmoor. The newly discovered grave joins a similar one excavated in 2011 on Whitehorse Hill at Dartmoor. Although other cist burials have been discovered at Dartmoor, most of them were excavated before modern archaeological techniques allowed for close examination of their contents. That means Whitehorse Hill and the new Cut Hill tomb could provide unprecedented information about what life was like in Early Bronze Age England. For example, the Whitehorse Hill amber beads suggest the local people were far from isolated; they traded and acquired materials from as far away as the Baltic region.
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