Woodland Princess – Scientists discover Rhine valley woodland city
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(Basel, Switzerland) — March 29, 2010. A team of Dutch, German, and French archaeologists announced today in Paris they have nearly completed a three-year excavation of an ancient woodland city hidden away in the Rhine valley for thousands of years. Radiocarbon testing conclusively dates artifacts from a period near the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. Scientists also reveal for the first time a nearly complete skeleton of a human-like female recovered from the excavation site. In a quiet forest no more than a few square kilometres large, Dutch archaeologist Ernst Voorst, Director of the Reinhard Van Gelder Institut für Anthropologie und Archäologie (Institute of Anthropology and Archaeology) at the Universität des Rheins (University of the Rhine) has led a team of 13 French, German, and Dutch archaeologists (and about 20 students) in careful excavation and analysis of an ancient gravesite near what the team describes as “a city in the trees”. Reports of the prehistoric tree-community began to circulate on the Internet in late 2008 and early 2009 until University officials clamped down on leaks. Fearing the site would be pillaged by amateur archaeologists and dealers in illegal antiquities, the French, Dutch, and German governments [...]
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