Archaeologists Baffled By A 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In Scotland With Its Brain Scooped Out And Its Bones Turned Into Tools
This is what the lead researcher, Dr.
Laura Castells Navarro, was pointing to when she described the care with which the woman was “reassembled and deposited in the cairn” as suggesting that she “commanded a level of reverence and respect by her community.” The logic is that you don’t put things back together unless the putting-together means something to you.
The reassembly of the modified remains in anatomical position is evidence of an intention to maintain the woman’s bodily integrity — not as it was in life, but in a modified, processed form that represented what she had become after her community had finished with her body.
What would the tools have been used for, and for how long?
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