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Scientists found a 2,600-year-old brain inside an Iron Age skull and it was still intact
A human brain that may date back more than two millennia has been recovered from a skull unearthed near York, offering an unusual case of soft tissue survival in Iron Age archaeology. The remains were first excavated in 2008 from a waterlogged pit at Heslington, where conditions appear to have slowed the normal process of decay.
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newscientist.com
Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead
Scrape marks inside a skull and sharpened limb bones in a set of remains found in Scotland may be evidence of unusual Iron Age funerary rituals
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independent.co.uk
Iron Age Britons likely removed corpse brains in strange ritual
Motivation behind the skull manipulation ‘very difficult to interpret’, scientists say
