Archaeologists Baffled By A 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In Scotland With Its Brain Scooped Out And Its Bones Turned Into Tools

They could have been associated with the disarticulation of the arms from the shoulders — freeing the arm bones that were then modified into tools.

They could have been the result of deliberate breakage of the shoulder blades for purposes that are not apparent from the physical evidence alone.

Or they could have occurred in a context associated with the circumstances of her death, if those circumstances involved targeted trauma to specific parts of the body.

The combination of the cranial base fracture, the bilateral scapular fractures, and the modification of the arm and leg bones presents a picture of systematic, deliberate intervention across multiple anatomical regions of the body.

This was not a random or incidental collection of damage.