Scale model of a 6,000-year-old Stone Age grave with mother and child.

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This is a 1 : 10 scale model of a 6,000-year-old Stone Age grave. The grave was discovered in 2017 at an archaeological site in Nieuwegein in the Netherlands; a location where people lived along the river during the Neolithic. These people belonged to the Swifterbant culture, which shows a transition from a hunter-gatherer culture to cattle farming. Finding skeletal remains from the Neolithic is rare, but due to the sedimentation of clay and peat they were preserved here. In the grave are the remains of a young woman, who died when she was between the ages of 20 to 30 years old. Even more intriguing is the fact that the archaeologists found the remains of a baby in the arms of the woman, who is believed to be its mother. The baby’s teeth were still intact and suggest that the baby died before it was six months old. This moving find is the earliest known example of a baby’s grave in the Netherlands. The model is made in Agisoft PhotoScan. Update 14-Oct-2018: Added version with only the remains (skelet800_cutout)