Newly uncovered bones hint at how Iron Age Britons treated their dead. Plus, AI models have failed to beat human mathematicians at research-level problems and the everyday items that make great scientific tools.
15 June 2026
Newly uncovered bones hint at how Iron Age Britons treated their dead. Plus, AI models have failed to beat human mathematicians at research-level problems and the everyday items that make great scientific tools.
By
Flora Graham
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Someone Who Died 2,000 Years Ago Had Their Bones Whittled Into Tools
Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?
Iron Age Britons likely removed corpse brains in strange ritual
In Iron Age Scotland, People Removed the Brains of the Dead and Sharpened Their Bones
In 2008, archaeologists lifting a skull from a wet pit in York found something soft inside, and the Heslington brain preserved a life from Iron Age Britain
Scientists found a 2,600-year-old brain inside an Iron Age skull and it was still intact
2,000-year-old skeleton in Scotland found with brain removed and bones carved into tools
Unearthed ‘princely grave’ offers new insights into Iron Age customs
The female individual’s brain was removed after her death, but her remains were carefully reassembled for her interment.
An Iron Age human skeleton with some unsettling modifications was discovered inside a stone cairn on what is now Scotland's…
Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools.
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An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools out of bone persisted even…
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