Lovers of Valdaro

The lovers of Valdaro is the name of two skeletons from the Neolithic period, which were found on 5 February 2007 in Valdaro, a suburb of Mantua in Italy. The skeletons lie entwined in a grave. Your age is estimated to be 5,000-6,000 years. The provisional age rating is also based on the present in the tomb tools and an arrowhead.

In the pair is likely to be a man and a woman. Since their teeth are still intact, it is believed that they died relatively young. The term " lover " is highly speculative, as long as nothing about the circumstances of life and the cause of death is known.

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In the Neolithic double burials were not common. It is not known why the couple embracing is buried. Normally skeletons, the bones are dug individually. In the case of lovers of Valdaro but is to be used the technique of block recovery. The couple should then, as it was found to be issued in an Italian museum. The grave is laid out in a north-south direction, another single grave in the vicinity, however, in east-west direction.