Citizen Scientists Enhance Prehistoric Mounds
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•Citizen scientists find hundreds of unknown burial mounds in the Netherlands
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An archaeology project that involved regular people doubled the number of known prehistoric barrows in the region in just four months .
Over 6,500 volunteers have analyzed data acquired by experts, supporting the accurate identification of approximately 1000 prehistoric burial mounds in the Netherlands .
A burial mound, also known as a barrow, is an ancient structure that consists of an artificial hill of earth .
Volunteers became advocates for the protection of archaeological sites in their regions, engaging in further local initiatives to promote the preservation of prehistoric landscapes.
“I’m blown away by how many previously unknown burial mounds the volunteers helped uncover”, concludes Bourgeois .
The study was published in the journal Antiquity .
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