A Native American adolescent’s skull at the Penn Museum moves closer home
The Museum has established the deceased's tribal heritage and is proceeding with the steps toward repatriating the remains.
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Iron Age People In Spain Drove Nails Through The Skulls Of The Dead And Put Them On Display For Different Reasons
In ancient times, saying goodbye to the dead was anything but simple. Many cultures practiced elaborate rituals to honor lost ...
El Paso deputies ask public’s help ID’ing skull found in Rampart Range area
El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies are asking for the public’s help identifying a man’s skull found Oct. 8, 2020.
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New clues to the ‘nailed head ritual’ uncovered in Spain
Why did prehistoric people on the Iberian Peninsula sever the heads of some of their dead and put iron nails in their skulls? This question has been debated by archaeologists for years and we ...
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Archaeologists Reveal Secrets of Chilling Iron Age Nailed Head Ritual
Languages: English. The ancient Iberian practice of severing the heads of the dead, driving a giant nail through their skulls and putting them on display may have been more complex than we thought.
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Worcester County Wonders: The Skull society at WPI remains a well-guarded secret
It's called the Skull Tomb and as Girouard describes it, "a little building at the base of the hill near the library." As for the secret society, he said he sometimes "saw a bunch of hooded people ...
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How big brains and flexible skulls led to the evolution of modern birds
New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into the ...