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Iron Age Britons may have removed the brains of the dead

Science | 2026-06-10 at 00:01 UTC | Source: www.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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