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Luttra Woman | |
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 The Luttra Woman's skull with a perforation below the left eye socket, likely resulting from a chronic bone infection[1] | |
| Died | 3928–3651 BC[2]: 101 Present-day Mönarpa mossar near Luttra, Sweden |
| Body discovered | 20 May 1943 58°06′48″N 13°31′14″E / 58.11333°N 13.52056°E |
| Resting place | Falbygden Museum, Falköping, Sweden |
| Other names | Hallonflickan (lit. 'Raspberry Girl') |
| Era | Early Neolithic[2]: 101 |
The Luttra Woman is a skeletonised bog body[a] from the Early Neolithic period (radiocarbon-dated 3928–3651 BC) that was discovered near Luttra, Sweden, on 20 May 1943. The skull was well-preserved, but some bones of the skeleton, particularly many between the skull and the pelvis, were absent. Osteological assessment identified the remains as those of a young female. Her estimated height of 145 cm (4 ft 9 in) was deemed notably short for a Stone Age woman of the region. The presence of raspberry seeds in her stomach contents, coupled with an estimated age of early to mid-twenties at death, led to her being nicknamed Hallonflickan (Swedish: [ˈhalɔnflɪkːˌan] ; lit. 'Raspberry Girl'). As of 2015[update], she represented the earliest known Neolithic individual from Western Sweden.
Multiple anthropological studies revealed no evidence of injuries or fatal diseases on her remains. She appeared to have been bound and placed in shallow water at or shortly after her death. Axel Bagge, an archaeologist who collaborated on the initial examination of her remains, hypothesised that she had been deliberately drowned, either as a human sacrifice or as the victim of a witch execution. Since 1994, her skeleton has been part of the permanent exhibition Forntid på Falbygden ('Prehistory in Falbygden') at the Falbygden Museum in Falköping, Sweden. In June 2011, a forensic reconstruction of her bust was incorporated to augment the display.
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Sjögrenwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Van Beek, Roy; Quik, Cindy; Bergerbrant, Sophie; Huisman, Floor; Kama, Pikne (2023). "Bogs, bones and bodies: the deposition of human remains in northern European mires (9000 BC–AD 1900)". Antiquity. 97 (391). Cambridge University Press: 120–121. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.163. S2CID 255655694.
This article incorporates text by Roy van Beek, et al. available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
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