Bronze Age Keepsakes

Skeleton buried with remains of three earlier individuals, Windmill Fields, North Yorkshire, England(Courtesy of Tees Archaeology)

Human femur musical instrument (Wiltshire Museum)

Bronze Age Britons seem to have collected and kept as relics the bones of people they’d lost. The macabre keepsakes included skulls and long bones as well as bits of cremated bones. Archaeologists Thomas Booth of the Francis Crick Institute and Joanna Brück of University College Dublin radiocarbon dated