Archaeologists in Taiwan have discovered a 4,800-year-old fossilised
skeleton of a mother and child. The mother and child are together, with the
mother cradling the baby in her arms (Fox News, 27 April 2016).
In the Taichung excavation site in central Taiwan, in operation from May
2014 for almost a year, archaeologists found 48 sets of human remains. Taiwan’s
National Museum of Natural Science announced the discovery on 26 April 2016.
The curator of the Anthropology Department of the museum, Chu Whei-lee, said
the fossilised mother and child were in an embrace with the mother looking down
at the baby in her arms.
Carbon dating technology was used to determine the ages of the fossils,
which included five children. The fossils were believed to be 4,800 years old.
MARTINA NICOLLS is the author of:-
The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends
(2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan
Curse (2009).
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