My mother hugged me for 6,000 years in the Netherlands

with intact teeth in the mother's arms 6,000 years old found in a grave in the Netherlands.

Archaeologists found the oldest burial site of a child at an estate in the autonomous district of Nieuwegein in the province of Utrecht, dating from the Stone Age, the International Business Times reported on January 31. The mother's hugging posture was only realized after the archaeological advisory organization RAAP in Leiden examined four skeletons during the excavation.

The mother's skeleton hugs her child in the clay and the image of the reconstruction of the woman and the child when buried.(Photo: Gemeente Nieuwegein).

Scientists noticed the right arm on the skeleton of a 30-year-old woman bent in strange angles. The arm bone is folded instead of straight, the posture is often seen in other skeletons in the site. A closer examination revealed the broken bones of an infant in his arms, showing the woman hugging a child while buried.

"The woman's body posture does not follow what we have found, it is the bodies with the limbs stretching parallel to the body. After that, we found the woman holding a child. Small, " said Helle Molthof, head of the project.

Fragments of broken bones sent for analysis include small jaw bone which still has some children's teeth. From this, the research team concluded that the child died when he was only two months old."It was a really impressive finding when you found infant teeth buried in clay for 6,000 years and found how similar they were with the teeth of parents today kept. at the extraction of teeth " , the Molthof said.

DNA testing will help researchers identify whether a woman is really the mother's baby and the sex of the baby. They hope the grave will provide information on the burial rites of the hunting-gathering community along the Vecht river.

"We know how they live, what foods they eat and what their homes look like, but we don't know much about how they bury the dead and what happens to young children," Molthof share.