The industrial plant on the novel AVE station of La Sagrera inward Barcelona, which convey discovered 68 graves alongside 358 skeletons, could atomic number 82 to the appearance of to a greater extent than remains equally the construction of the railway infrastructure progresses.
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According to Josep Pujades, who is inward accuse of archaeological interventions, the remains may convey belonged to closed to of the soldiers of Philip IV's troops who took purpose inward the siege of Barcelona inward 1651, inward the Guerra dels Segadors (Reapers' War) too who died equally a result of plague. None of the bodies constitute convey whatever indication of having died a trigger-happy decease too inward the dandy bulk of cases they are men betwixt fifteen too 35 years of age.
"Since 2008, archaeologists convey been working on all the interventions inward the area. In 2011 a get-go grave was located too inward months nosotros constitute twelve graves alongside 182 corpses. We were facing multiple burials, closed to of which incorporate to a greater extent than than sixty bodies," Pujades said.
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"When nosotros encounter corpses piled upwardly similar this it is indicative of a major mortality crisis. We constitute fragments of ceramics that clearly dot that it is a mid-seventeenth-century necropolis. Studying historical maps, nosotros constitute that betwixt this dot too the centre of the metropolis at that spot was a large army camp of Castilian troops that besieged Barcelona. We know that at this fourth dimension at that spot was plague too nosotros believe that this is the drive of decease of these men," says the principal archaeologist.
Several small-scale graves, alongside 1 or ii bodies, were constitute that in all likelihood gibe to the get-go stage of the epidemic, piece the other graves alongside dozens of dead, piled up, would gibe to the highest moments of mortality.
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The remains volition live on transferred to the Zona Franca, to the depots of the Museum of History of Barcelona, where they volition undergo the relevant anthropological analyses. The few items that convey been removed from the graves (some buttons, bits of leather too ceramic fragments) volition also teach to the Museum to live on analysed.
The earthworks volition concluding a few to a greater extent than days, during which to a greater extent than bodies may appear. The graves themselves volition live on reburied past times the industrial plant of the station.
Source: El Pais [September 04, 2018] Sumber http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com
