The Bronze Age Egtved Girl came from far away, as revealed by strontium isoTOPe1 analyses of the girls teeth. The analyses show that she was born and raised outside Denmarks current borders, and strontium isoTOPe analyses of the girls hair and a thumb nail also show that she travelled great distances the last two years of her life. The wool from the Egtved Girls clothing, the blanket she was covered with, and the oxhide she was laid to rest on in the oak coffin2 all originate from a location outside present-day Denmark. The combination of the different provenance3 analyses indicates that the Egtved Girl, her clothing, and the oxhide come from Schwarzwald in South West Germany - as do the cremated4 remains5 of a six-year-old child who was buried with the Egtved Girl. The girls coffin dates the burial to a summer day in the year 1370 BC.It is senior researcher Karin Margarita Frei, from the National Museum of Denmark and Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen, who has analysed the Egtved Girls strontium isoTOPe signatures. The analyses have been carried out in collaboration6 with Kristian Kristiansen from the University of Gothenburg and the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management and the Centre for GeoGenetics, both University of Copenhagen.The research has been possible through the support of The Danish National Research Foundation, European Research Council, the Carlsberg Foundation and LOral Denmark-UNESCO For Women in Science Award.The results have just been published in Scientific Reports.
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1 isoTOPe n.同位素 参考例句： The isoTOPe ratio is directly used for comparing oils or gases.同位素比率直接用于比较各种石油或天然气。 How to apply a radio isoTOPe怎么样运用放射性同位素？
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