Egtved Girl

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The Egtved Girl [ˈektveð] was a young woman of the Nordic Bronze Age whose burial was discovered near Egtved in Jutland, Denmark, on 24 February 1921. She was approximately 16–18 years old when she died. Tree-ring dating of her oak-log coffin places the burial in the summer of 1370 BCE. She was buried beneath the mound Storehøj, dressed in a woollen blouse and corded skirt, with a circular bronze belt plate decorated with spirals. Her coffin also contained jewellery, a horn comb, a bark container holding a fermented drink, and the cremated remains of a child aged about five or six. Although her bones had dissolved, her hair, tooth enamel, fingernails and small amounts of brain tissue and skin survived, together with her clothing and other organic burial materials. Scientific examination of the surviving remains has provided evidence about her diet and prompted debate over her origins and movements. A 2015 study interpreted strontium isotope measurements as evidence that she came from outside...

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