Iron Age people living on the Iberian Peninsula in the last millennium BCE had a striking funerary tradition: chopping off people’s heads and hanging them in prominent places—sometimes with a ...
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Chip Chick on MSNIron Age People In Spain Drove Nails Through The Skulls Of The Dead And Put Them On Display For Different ReasonsIn ancient times, saying goodbye to the dead was anything but simple. Many cultures practiced elaborate rituals to honor lost ...
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Archaeologists Discovered That Ancient Iberians Used To Ingest A Toxic, Bright Red Mercury Powder 5,000 Years Ago, Presumably For Its Magical PropertiesArchaeologists have found that people living in the Iberian Peninsula used to ingest mercury powder around 5,000 years ago. The levels of mercury they found in the bones of the ancient people were ...
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Legit.ng on MSNScientists Uncover 1.4 Million-Year-Old Jawbone of Ancient Human's Face in Western EuropeA group of scientists have discovered the jaw bone of an ancient human species that lived about 1.4 million years ago. The ...
Analyzing ancient DNA from the skeletal remains of eight late Neolithic Iberian people, scientists now present evidence to suggest that one such hypothesis—that lactase persistence was selected for ...
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