The Luttra Woman is a skeletonised bog body discovered in a peat bog in Falbygden near Luttra, Sweden. The remains were found on 20 May 1943 by a peat cutter. The skull was well-preserved, but some bones of the skeleton, particularly many between the skull and the pelvis, were missing.
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![The Luttra Woman in the posture in which she was found, with her legs drawn tightly into a squatting position[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Hallonflickan_-_Falbygdens_museum.jpg/1280px-Hallonflickan_-_Falbygdens_museum.jpg)
The Luttra Woman in the posture in which she was found, with her legs drawn tightly into a squatting position[1]
The Luttra Woman's stomach contents consisting of raspberry seeds
Artist's impression of the supposed human sacrifice ritual in which the Luttra Woman was drowned. By Gunnar Creutz, Falbygden Museum.
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The Luttra Woman is a skeletonised bog body discovered in a peat bog in Falbygden near Luttra, Sweden. The remains were found on 20 May 1943 by a peat cutter. The skull was well-preserved, but some bones of the skeleton, particularly many between the skull and the pelvis, were missing. Osteological assessment identified the remains as those of a young female. The presence of raspberry seeds in her stomach contents, together with an estimated age of early to mid-twenties at death, led to her being nicknamed Hallonflickan. Radiocarbon-dated to 3928-3651 BC, she was, as of 2015, the earliest known Neolithic individual from Western Sweden. In a study, her estimated height of 145 cm was deemed short for a Stone Age woman of the region.
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