Archaeologists have found the remains of dozens of people in a roughly 7,000-year-old stone tomb in Oman.
Archaeologists have found the remains of dozens of people who were buried up to 7,000 years ago in a stone tomb in Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula.
Danielisová is leading the excavations at the tomb for the institute, which is part of the Czech Academy of Sciences . The tomb itself was discovered about 10 years ago in satellite photographs, and archaeologists think it dates to between 5000 B.C. and 4600 B.C. Ancient tombImage 1 of 3A report on the project said the tomb's walls were made with rows of thin stone slabs, called ashlars, with two circular burial chambers inside divided into individual compartments.
The next stage will be to carry out anthropological and biochemical assessments of the human remains — such as isotope analysis, a look at the differing neutrons in the nuclei of various key elements — to learn more about the diets, mobility and demographics of the people who were buried in the tomb, she said. Prehistoric OmanImage 1 of 3The work on the tomb is one of several archaeological projects in Oman being led by scientists from the Czech Republic.
Although the triliths are only a few feet tall and were built during the Iron Age, some recent news reports compared them to England's Stonehenge.
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