{"id":297886,"date":"2023-08-04T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=297886"},"modified":"2023-08-04T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:34:13","slug":"another-unusual-discovery-by-archaeologists-from-nicolaus-copernicus-university-in-torun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/another-unusual-discovery-by-archaeologists-from-nicolaus-copernicus-university-in-torun\/","title":{"rendered":"Another unusual discovery by archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru\u0144"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of researchers from the Institute of Archaeology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru\u0144 has come across another interesting find during excavations in Pie\u0144 near D\u0105browa Che\u0142mi\u0144ska. Researchers there continue to search for graves in an early medieval necropolis and a modern, probably Protestant cemetery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest discovery is the grave of a child aged about 5-7 years, who was placed face down in the grave cavity. This arrangement of the corpse may suggest that there was a fear of the deceased and its &#8216;activity&#8217; after death, for example that it would bite the living. Turning the face downwards was perhaps intended to make the deceased bite into the ground, so it no longer posed a threat to people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A year ago, Toru\u0144 scientists located the burial of a young woman whose body had been doubly protected from rising from the grave: a triangular padlock was placed on the big toe of her left foot, and a sickle was placed on her neck with the blade pointing downwards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.umk.pl\/pl\/article\/sezon-na-odkrycia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/portal.umk.pl\/pl\/article\/sezon-na-odkrycia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from the Institute of Archaeology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru\u0144 has come across another interesting find during excavations in Pie\u0144 near D\u0105browa Che\u0142mi\u0144ska. Researchers there continue to search for graves in an early medieval necropolis and a modern, probably Protestant cemetery. The latest discovery is the grave of a child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":297801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297896,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297886\/revisions\/297896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}