127 Years Ago, a Coffin Fell From the Sky. Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of Its Mystery.

https://piefed.social/c/science/p/1938884/127-years-ago-a-coffin-fell-from-the-sky-scientists-just-solved-a-major-piece-of-its-my

127 Years Ago, a Coffin Fell From the Sky. Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of Its Mystery.

Archaeological finds aren’t always unearthed from the ground or recovered from caves and catacombs. Sometimes, they basically fall from the sky. …

A cliff is not the sky, but interesting nonetheless.
I imagined a Coyote/Road Runner situation in which the coffin slid down the cliff, through a loop-de-loop, then rocket back up an incline into the air.
The coffin was perfectly content in the air until she looked down.
My best guess was a catapult, and then it’s just BS.
I was hoping it was a heist gone south, and the thieves had to lighten the plane or they would never make it.
How long ago were planes invented again?
Hot-air balloon.
🎶 The man they call Jaayyne…
A wooden stool? Ooooh, a wooden stool. That was really weird for a moment.

I found the article confusing. I thought the coffin had fallen from a plane or something. It then jumped to the content about other graves.

It went on about wood dating techniques and still didnt quite explain what occurred.

From what I am guessing it fell from a cliff. The mystery was a discrepancy of dating between the body to the coffin(which was older). Some testing occurred and it seems she ate some protein….and that’s it. Am I missing something here?

Just typical “science journalism” sensationalizing journal articles.
In fiction, when someone important to the protagonist dies, they’re often buried near the edge of a cliff, which always seemed like a precarious place to bury someone to me. I guess this is what happens to graves like that in the long term.
Fucking clickbait title. The coffin did not fall from the fucking sky.