A Viking cemetery in England doesn't just hold the cremated remains of these warriors but also the beloved animals they brought from Scandinavia.
When the Vikings sailed west to England more than a millennium ago, they brought their animal companions with them and even cremated their bodies alongside human ones in a blazing pyre before burying them together, a new study finds.
"At Heath Wood, the people raked the remains of the pyre, removing portions of bone and mixing up what was left," study lead study author Tessi Löffelmann , a doctoral candidate in archaeology at Durham University in the U.K., told Live Science in an email."I find this intriguing because that means there was no clear separation between animals and humans any longer — everything kind of became part of the same thing, something new.
Most of the cremated remains that were studied came from one burial mound, which also included a sword hilt, silver and iron objects, and a fragment of a shield. Mixed in with the remains of an adult and a younger person were bones from a horse, a dog and what was likely a pig. An adult from another burial mound was also studied.Although chemical analysis of burned bone is a relatively new technique, the Heath Wood remains produced an interesting set of results.
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