A necropolis found in the Balkan republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina has revealed a high mortality rate in the prehistoric period after archaeologists discovered 46 graves and 53 individuals from the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Human remains from the Kopilo Cemetery–discovered by archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) and from Bosnia and Herzegovina–showed that the dead in the region were buried and not cremated like in the rest of Europe in the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Kopilo, which is considered to be region’s first and so far only burial ground from the Bronze and Iron Ages and dates back to 1,300 BC, is located about 43 miles west of the country’s capital, Sarajevo. It is located about 2,000 feet above sea level.
