Human encroachment, climate change and the loss of our archaeological organic cultural heritage : Accelerated bone deterioration at Ageröd, a revisited Scandinavian Mesolithic key-site in despair
Ancient organic remains are essential for the reconstruction of past human lifeways and environments but are only preserved under particular conditions. Recent findings indicate that such conditions are becoming rarer and that archaeological sites with previously good preservation, are deteriorating. To investigate this, we returned to the well-known Swedish Mesolithic site Ageröd I. Here we prese