Ancient teenager buried with head poking out of strange Spanish grave

By Colin Barras

A.M. Herrero-Corral, et al.

AN UNUSUAL 3700-twelve months-dilapidated grave unearthed in Spain reveals how tiny we all know about some extinct burial practices.

At the Humanejos feature, 20 kilometres south of Madrid, there are about 100 extinct tombs. None in all fairness as uncommon as grave 31.

All over the 1.2-metre-deep grave, the body of a 15-twelve months-dilapidated formative years changed into placed, sitting correct. He changed into then partly buried, leaving his head and shoulders exposed to the parts. In the end, the body decayed and the formative years’s greater body collapsed – at which level extra grime changed into added to the …