I have come upon an article about a female teenage skeleton found in Denmark. The remains are seen be as old as 1370 BC but when she passed, she was only twenty years old. Because the remains are well preserved, archaeologists have been able to identify not only her clothing, but her hair.The picture shown below demonstrates the fashion of this time and gives us a better insight around her death and who she was. The circular orange item was thought to be a canister of some sort to hold liquid. This was further understood because of the remnants of liquid found inside. Her clothing is made out of wool and from further analysis, evidence of a ritualistic death was found.
These advances make me want to learn even more about this girl. The rituals her society had, who she was as an individual, and who tried showing respect to the body during burial (she was placed on cowhide with a wool blanket covering her.) From this, one could assume that she had high social status or that she had close relations with the individuals who buried her; it could also be seen as remorse.
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| Supposed outfit of the young teen |
Wow, that's so crazy. Who knew that trends would be coming back into style 3300 years later! The dress of the day is strikingly similar to the things we wear these days! It's so scary that her hair AND clothing survived and that we can tell things about her status, the way she died, the way she dressed.. so cool that we can get so much out of a dead body!
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