Ancient stinging nettles reveal Bronze Age trade connections
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 08:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A piece of nettle cloth retrieved from Denmark's richest known Bronze Age burial mound Lusehøj may actually derive from Austria, new findings suggest. The cloth thus tells a surprising story about long-distance Bronze Age trade connections around 800 BC. The findings have just been published in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.