Thames Skeletons Date Back to Bronze Age
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People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds

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Hundreds of human bones have been dredged from the bottom of England 's River Thames over the past two centuries .
A new study of these skeletons suggests that most of them date back to the Bronze and Iron ages.
Researchers have studied skeletons from the Thames since the 19th century .
The exact reason for the bodies' placement in the river is unclear.
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