{"id":7722,"date":"2025-02-21T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-boneyard-along-the-thames-river-reveals-londons-ancient-burials\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:15:16","slug":"a-boneyard-along-the-thames-river-reveals-londons-ancient-burials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-boneyard-along-the-thames-river-reveals-londons-ancient-burials\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boneyard Along the Thames River Reveals London\u2019s Ancient Burials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The banks of the Thames River have hosted human settlements for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/media.guidebook.com\/upload\/y6uO3ELdPtikOwxDd8QuRd2klGbHmHdoWD0mpvSK\/72f78414-c37f-11e5-ab43-1245f072ccc1.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">thousands of years<\/a>, from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.megalithic.co.uk\/article.php?sid=33625\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Neolithic huts<\/a> to the soaring skyscrapers of London. Evidence of bygone civilizations has been steadily deposited on the river\u2019s muddy bottom for modern archaeologists to mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, researchers in London have dated dozens of bones dredged from the river, creating a comprehensive database that has dispelled longstanding theories about why the river came to serve as the final resting place for so many people. The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/antiquity\/article\/abs\/human-remains-from-the-river-thames-new-dating-evidence\/EFB9C3236B3445A93CBC852BC252CDFA\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> were published in the journal Antiquity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s really fabulous, actually, in lots of different ways,\u201d said Thomas Booth, an expert in ancient genomics at the Francis Crick Institute in London who was not involved in the project. Dr. Booth said it was \u201cby far the most comprehensive effort\u201d to date the human remains found in the Thames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The river\u2019s mud, which lacks oxygen, is a sealant that helps preserve remains. (If oxygen is present, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7343130\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bones decompose much faster<\/a>.) And because there is so much activity on the Thames, its mud is constantly yielding historical treasures. In 2018, workers building a new sewage tunnel along the riverbank discovered an intact 500-year-old skeleton <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/05\/world\/europe\/uk-london-skeleton-boots.html\" title=\"\">with leather boots still on<\/a> its feet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For the new study, researchers dated bones by measuring the amount of a carbon isotope in each one. This method, known as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/explainer\/what-is-carbon-14-dating\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">radiocarbon dating<\/a>, had previously been used to determine the age of 19 samples. This time, the researchers tested 28 river samples \u2014 all from skulls \u2014 that had never been dated before. They also tested two skulls from a decades-old <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/antiquity\/article\/abs\/human-skulls-from-the-river-thames-their-dating-and-significance\/5CE79BBA69120FA0F0BB199755CDC0E8\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">investigation<\/a> to see if the results still held up (they did).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The researchers also included some samples that had been found by \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/12\/world\/europe\/london-thames-mudlarks.html\" title=\"\">mudlarks<\/a>,\u201d amateur archaeologists who are deputized by London officials to scour the Thames. (It\u2019s a popular hobby; some 10,000 people are on the mudlark <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pla.co.uk\/thames-foreshore-permits#:~:text=As%20the%20wait%20list%20for%20permits%20has%20now%20surpassed%2010%2C000\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">waiting list<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In all, the researchers compiled 61 dated samples in their database. About 200 other samples from the river have not yet been dated, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s the largest assemblage of its nature in Britain,\u201d said Nichola Arthur, an author of the study and an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum in London, which contributed the 28 new samples.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Romans settled London (then known as Londinium) shortly after conquering Britain in 43 A.D. Remarkably, traces of the Roman settlement still remain, such as a basilica <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/world\/europe\/london-roman-basilica.html\" title=\"\">just discovered<\/a> under the city\u2019s financial district.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But humans lived along the river long before that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere were people settled here nearly 4,000 years ago,\u201d said Heather Bonney, another archaeologist at the Natural History Museum and author on the new paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Half of the new samples came from either the Bronze or Iron Age, which stretched from 2300 B.C. to the arrival of the Romans, with a notable cluster appearing amid the transition between the two periods. This led them to conclude that the bodies had been placed in the river intentionally, contrary to previous <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/antiquity\/article\/abs\/ritual-or-fluvial-a-further-comment-on-the-thames-skulls\/0EC7139032DB1455C74829983C462182\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">theories<\/a> arguing that they had been moved by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thames21.org.uk\/what-is-the-tidal-thames\/#:~:text=Twice%20a%20day%20the%20Thames,7m%20in%20just%20six%20hours.\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">powerful tides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The study also sheds light on archaeology\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/book\/40279\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmissing dead\u201d conundrum<\/a>, referring to a dearth of evidence about the funerary practices of many ancient societies. If water burials were as prevalent as the Thames findings suggest, the rivers of Europe could be doing double-duty as prehistoric graveyards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPart of the reason why the dead are invisible in this period is that a lot of them are being deposited in rivers or other watery places,\u201d Dr. Booth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As far as other watery places, bogs have been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/30\/science\/archaeology-bogs-mummies.html#:~:text=Of%20the%2057%20bog%20people,bog%20in%201950%2C%20was%20hanged.\" title=\"\">an especially rich source<\/a> for archaeologists, since their acidic waters allow for an astonishing, mummy-like level of preservation. Britain\u2019s most famous bog body is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-28589151\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Lindow Man<\/a>, who was discovered in 1984 and is thought to have been the victim of a violent death around the time of the Romans\u2019 arrival. None of the Thames bones have achieved his level of fame.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/science\/thames-river-boneyard.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The banks of the Thames River have hosted human settlements for thousands of years, from Neolithic huts to the 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