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A Mystery Activity
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Clue A
What questions do you want to ask?
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Clue A: More info
Riccall Skeletons
Skeletons discovered on bank of River Ouse, nr. Riccall, Yorks in 1956
46 skeletons and part-skeletons of which:
28 were identifiable as men
2 women, 5 children
Other bones found in 1830s and 1880s
23 more skeletons were found in 1980s
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Clue H
Scientists can tell which region people grew up in.
This is because traces of the water that children drink stay in their teeth for ever.
They tested the teeth of 6 skeletons
This showed that the people grew up in the dark blue areas on the map.
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Acknowledgements
This activity is taken from:
‘What is history? Y7’
By Ian Dawson
John Murray, Hodder Headline (2003)
by permission of Hodder Education
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to Dr. Claire Smith and the students of Leeds Trinity PGCE course
and to Hodder Education
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