Around 1,500 BC the mummified woman at Cladh Hallan was dug up and re-eried, her left knee left behind — her new pit one of several cuts into the old cemetery.
Mummified woman exhumed and re-eried after about 150 years
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Key facts
- About a century and a half after her original burial (around 1,150 BC), the mummified woman was exhumed and re-eried
- Her left knee and other body parts were left behind in the first grave
- Her open grave was one of several large pits cut into the earlier burial ground, some holding scattered remains from previous interments
- The video's interpretation is that Bronze Age Cladh Hallan involved sustained ritual attention to ancestors, with the dead repeatedly lifted, moved and cared for
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Cladh Hallanen.wikipedia.org
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