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The curious history of hanging coffins
The ancient funeral tradition of “hanging coffins” in southern China was carried out by ancestors of a minority ethnic group still living in the region today, a new study has found.The report findings “provide valuable insights into the genetic, cultural, and historical roots of this burial custom”, say the authors of the study, published in the Nature Communications journal.Auspicious and propitiousFor millennia, inhabitants of modern-day Yunna…
For centuries, suspended coffins placed on cliffs in southern China generated unanswered questions between archaeologists and historians.The lack of accurate information about the peoples who carried out this practice turned the ritual into an archaeological mystery.An international investigation allowed it to be established that those responsible were the ancestors of the present Bo people, an ethnic group that lives in the province of Yunnan, …
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