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Bronze Age funeral pyre in Northern Italy may have been used over generations, with cremated remains left in situ as part of complex funerary rituals

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The cremation platform during the excavation of 1987 (courtesy of Ufficio Beni Archeologici di Bolzano).

image: The cremation platform during the excavation of 1987 (courtesy of Ufficio Beni Archeologici di Bolzano). view more 

Credit: Crivellaro et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Bronze Age funeral pyre in Northern Italy may have been used over generations, with cremated remains left in situ as part of complex funerary rituals

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267532

Article Title: Salorno—Dos de la Forca (Adige Valley, Northern Italy): A unique cremation site of the Late Bronze Age

Author Countries: U.S.A., Italy, U.K., Austria

Funding: FC, 5.4/14.05.07/010/2915, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano (IT); UT, 0002920/22, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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