Archaeologists Baffled By A 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In Scotland With Its Brain Scooped Out And Its Bones Turned Into Tools
It extends far beyond the two individuals, beyond the community that buried them, beyond the landscape of Sutherland.
It reaches into fundamental questions about how human societies understand the relationship between the living and the dead, about what the human body means in different cultural contexts, about how memory is maintained through material practices, and about what the physical record of the past can and cannot tell us about the inner lives of the people who made it.
These questions are not merely academic.
They are questions about what it means to be human — about how human communities organize their relationships with death, with the past, and with the material substance of the people who have been part of them.
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