Archaeologists Baffled By A 2,000-Year-Old Skeleton Found In Scotland With Its Brain Scooped Out And Its Bones Turned Into Tools
It was a sequence of specific actions, affecting specific bones, in what appears to have been a structured approach to the body of this woman after her death.
The researchers note that the sequence of these perimortem lesions — which came first, the skull fracture or the scapular fractures — cannot be determined from the evidence.
What can be said is that they all occurred around the time of death, when the bone was still fresh, and that together they represent a substantial investment of effort in the physical transformation of her body.
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