Mystery Iron Age skeletons discovered in bizarre seated positions & facing same direction at ancient burial site

A strange discovery has been uncovered by researchers in an old French cemetery.

Archaeologists in Dijon, France, have discovered a set of 13 circular burials.

While excavating what was once the garden of the Cordeliers convent, which is bounded by the rue de Tivoli, the scientists found a burial place that dates back to the second Iron Age.

The archaeologists discovered skeletons within each of the 13 circular burials, all of them seated and facing west.

According to the team responsible for the discovery, France’s National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research (INRAP), there are just eight other known Gallic burial sites.

In Switzerland, just three further Gallic burial sites have been discovered.

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A 25-meter strip from south to north is formed by 13 circular trenches, each about one meter in diameter and evenly spaced.

As was common for burials between 450 and 25 BCE, each body was meticulously positioned in a seated position with its back to the pit’s eastern side.

The skeletons are all interred in precisely the same manner, with the hands close to the femurs or pelvis and the arms laying across the torso.

The INRAP claims that “their legs are very bent, often asymmetrically.”

There are no further symbolic or personal effects associated with the bodies, except that they are all buried wearing a black armband.

Researchers have a lot to work with and learn from because the remains have remained astonishingly intact despite centuries of weathering.

Although the reason for the 13 people’s burial is still unknown, other Gallic burial sites that have been found indicate that it may have something to do with their social standing.

They might have had religious or political significance, according to some theories.

According to INRAP: “Only a dozen archaeological sites produce about fifty’seated’ dead, whose burials are situated away from the necropolises, close to aristocratic homes or even sanctuaries or places of worship.

“Concordances recur despite the remoteness of these locations: these burial sites are situated on the outskirts of populated areas; the individuals involved are adults whose sex is, when ascertained, male.

“In addition, the uniformity of the positions (the same orientation, the careful arrangement of the corpse) recall the stone or metal figures of crouching or even sitting cross-legged dated between the end of La T ne and the High Empire; these burials evoke a practice probably intended for particular subjects.”

Another odd discovery was made elsewhere on the site, even though these strange burial plots were discovered in the oldest section of the Cordeliers convent’s garden.

Additionally, archaeologists discovered the remains of at least 22 infants in a necropolis from the first century CE.

Because some of the graves were destroyed by agricultural work, the exact number of bodies is unknown.

However, it is thought that the children passed away before turning one year old based on the remains that have survived.

As was common at the time, they were individually buried on their sides or backs.

A variety of artifacts, such as stone casings, nails, coins, and ceramics, were interred alongside the children.

Additionally, the remains of wooden coffins that have since decayed were discovered by researchers.

According to INRAP: “The absence of older subjects seems to indicate that this is a space dedicated to the burial of very young children.”

But eventually, the area was utilized for farming, followed by butchering.

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