DNA analysis of tooth enamel reveals that a female was interred in a burial containing grave goods that indicate its occupant was involved in warfare.
The mystery of a 2000 year-old burial containing a mirror and a sword has now been solved, with archaeologists discovering that the person buried with the grave goods was very likely a woman.
The Iron Age sword and mirror found in a prehistoric burial on the island of Bryher in the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern tip of Britain. The mystery of the burial has now been solved.had failed because of the disintegration of the bones: only around 0.3 pounds of bone and teeth remained in the grave. In the paper, the authors describe how they instead used tooth enamel to determine that the person was in fact a woman.
"Our findings offer an exciting opportunity to re-interpret this important burial. They provide evidence of a leading role for a woman in warfare on Iron Age Scilly," Sarah Stark a human skeletal biologist at Historic England, said in the statement.
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