The work on the tomb is one of several archaeological projects in Oman being led by scientists from the Czech Republic.Īccording to a statement from the CAS, these projects include an expedition in southern Oman's Dhofar province that has found a stone hand ax that may date back to the first early human migrations out of Africa, between 300,000 and 1.3 million years ago. The team also hopes to find a nearby ancient settlement where the people may have lived. The next stage will be to carry out anthropological and biochemical assessments of the human remains - such as isotope analysis, a look at the differing neutrons in the nuclei of various key elements - to learn more about the diets, mobility and demographics of the people who were buried in the tomb, she said. Danielisová said there is evidence that the dead there were buried at different times, and three graves of people from the Samad culture, who lived thousands of years later, were found nearby. Similar remains were found in a smaller tomb next to the main tomb archaeologists think it was built slightly later. Several 'bone clusters' were found in the burial chambers, indicating that the dead had been left to decompose before being deposited in the tomb their skulls were placed near the outside wall, with their long bones pointed toward the center of the chamber. The entire tomb was covered with an ashlar roof, but it has partially collapsed, probably because of the annual monsoon rains. A report on the project said the tomb's walls were made with rows of thin stone slabs, called ashlars, with two circular burial chambers inside divided into individual compartments.

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