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James Gamble

Studying Bronze Age Burials Reveals Cross-continental Family Bonds

Two remarkably similar burials found hundreds of miles apart have shed new light on family relationships during the Bronze Age.

The two graves in Britain and Luxembourg, which date back to around 3,800 years ago, each show an adult buried in a final loving embrace with a child they were related to.

DNA analysis of the remains reveals that the bodies in the European grave are of a mother and her son, whilst the bodies in Britain were of an aunt and her young niece.

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