Neolithic Child’s Burial Excavated in India

CHENNAI, INDIA—According to a report in The New Indian Express, a burial of a child estimated to have been between the ages of nine and 11 at the time of death has been unearthed at the site of a small settlement in southeastern India by a team of researchers led by Jinu Koshy of the University of Madras. The child was buried with pottery that has been dated to the Neolithic period, between about 5000 and 1500 B.C. Radiocarbon dating will be conducted to obtain a more precise age for the burial. To read about a 2,300-year-old terracotta sarcophagus found near Chennai, go to “Double Vision.”