2,000 Year Old Woman Found in Chosun!

Wow - what do those people eat? Drink? Smoke? Oops - headline neglects to indicate that the 2,000 year old woman is DEAD and is a SKELETON. LOL! 2,000-Year-Old Woman Found in Incheon (Korea) December 11, 2008 A well-preserved adult female skeleton dating back 2,000 years ago has been unearthed in Yeongjong Island, Incheon. The Korea Institute for Archeology and Environment, an agency specializing in unearthing and studying buried cultural properties, on Wednesday said it unearthed the skeleton lying supine with its head facing northwest in a burial mound at the bottom layer of a shell mound relic site in Unnam-dong, Jung-gu in District 2 of Yeongjong Haneul Town in the Incheon Free Economic Zone. "In light of the size of the femur, we presume that the skeleton once belonged to a 153.6 cm-tall adult female,” the institute said. “She is presumed to have given birth to two to three babies. A long egg-shaped maroon earthen jar which was discovered near the skeleton contained apparent fragments of an infant's skull and lower jawbone.” It said the finds will provide a lot of information for archeological research about people in an era about which little is known. Pieces of earthenware dating to the early days of the Three Kingdoms Period from centuries before Christ's birth to the third and fourth centuries were also excavated from this shell mound. Also found there were coins made in the Chinese Han Dynasty [circa 220 BCE - 220 CE].