Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead

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Fragments of the skull (left) and shoulder blades (right) of a woman buried at Loch Borralie, UK Rebecca Ellis-Haken A woman interred in Scotland 2000 years ago has peculiar scrape marks inside her skull, which suggest that removing the brain after death may have been a funeral tradition in Iron Age Britain. The funerary practices […]

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Publish date : 2026-06-10 00:01:00

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