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A grave error concerning the demise of ‘Hunstanton Woman’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Peter G. Hoare  and
Caroline S. Sweet
Peter G. Hoare
Affiliation:
Sedimentology and Palaeobiology Laboratory, Division of Geography, Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, England
Caroline S. Sweet
Affiliation:
Sedimentology and Palaeobiology Laboratory, Division of Geography, Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, England
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‘Hunstanton Woman’, a skeleton found in 1897 within glacial gravels at Hunstanton on the east English coast, has now been carbon-dated. She turns out to be yet another intrusive burial, rather than an ‘Ice Age’ person.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 260 , September 1994 , pp. 590 - 596
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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