November
21
/ 2015
A 15- to 17-year-old girl was considered so dangerous to her medieval Italian community, even after death, that the villagers burned her, threw her in a pit and covered her remains with big stone slabs, archaeologists said. This is the second medieval “deviant burial” found in the town of Albenga. It is unknown exactly when the girl was buried because researchers haven’t yet done carbon dating, but archaeologists estimate the girl died between the ninth and 15 th centuries AD, says an article in Discovery. “We can’t say whether she was alive or not when she was burnt. Fire attacked her body when soft tissues were still present, so it could have occurred before death or soon after,” said anthropologist
