The death of a pregnant woman may have necessitated a different burial in prehistoric Pennsylvania.
Grave goods discovered in the burial of a pregnant Native American woman from prehistoric Pennsylvania: L to R, bone beads around her neck, pottery fragment, shell beads around her pelvis.The distinctive burial and skeletal remains of a young Native American woman from prehistoric Pennsylvania intrigued an archaeologist studying in a museum: what she eventually found were four arrowheads in the woman's chest and fetal bones in her pelvis.
One woman, however, was found outside the village, buried under a tree. Her grave contained 30 bone beans in the pelvis region as well as 44 shell beads around her neck. Wakefield-Murphy was particularly surprised by the three projectile points in the woman's chest cavity, as well as the additional point embedded in her left 12th rib. Finally, the remains of a 24-week-old fetus were found along with the woman's body.
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