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The 3,000 Year-Old Girl Buried In An Oak Coffin: Egtved Girl
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The 3,000 Year-Old Girl Buried In An Oak Coffin: Egtved Girl

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In 1921, workers cutting peat near Egtved, Denmark uncovered an oak coffin buried under the Storehøj barrow, sealed since a summer day in 1370 BC. Inside lay the remains of a teenage girl, her skin and hair long gone but her wool clothing, hair net, bronze belt disc, and a small birch-bark box of grave goods intact. The film follows archaeologists and scientists re-examining that find with modern techniques: strontium isotope analysis of her teeth and nails, which suggests she traveled long distances before her death, and reconstructions of Bronze Age textile production and trade networks stretching across Europe. Researchers walk through the barrow landscape around Vejle, handle replicas of her costume, and lay out competing theories about who she was and why she ended up buried so far, possibly, from where she was born. Interviews with the specialists doing the isotope work and textile analysis carry the narrative, turning a single grave into a case study of Bronze Age mobility, status, and trade.