4800 year old fossil of mother

Archaeologists in Taiwan found a 4,800 year old human fossil of a mother with a small child in her arms.

The most striking discovery was the skeleton of a young mother watching a child in her arms.,, When it was dug were shocked archaeologists. Why? Because the mother looked down at the baby in her hands, '' said Chu Whei-lee, curator of the anthropology department of Taiwan's national museum of natural sciences.

The excavation of the site began in 2014 and took a year to complete. Radiocarbon dating is used to determine the age of the fossils, including five children,.