Pregnancy Hormones Found in Human Skeletal Remains - Archaeology Magazine

Pregnancy Hormones Found in Human Skeletal Remains - Archaeology Magazine

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND—Phys.org reports that Aimée Barlow of the University of Sheffield and her colleagues have identified pregnancy hormones in human skeletal remains. The researchers tested the remains of seven women and three men who lived in Britain between the first and nineteenth centuries A.D. In utero fetal remains had been recovered in the burials of two of the women. Another two had been interred in mother-child burials with fetal remains…