Study Reveals Iron Age Scottish Woman's Brain Removal as Part of Burial Ritual
A new study has revealed that an Iron Age Scottish woman likely had her brain deliberately removed after death as part of a burial ritual. Researchers found distinctive cut marks inside her skull and an unusual fracture at its base, suggesting intentional brain extraction. The woman's modified long bones were carefully placed back in anatomically correct positions, indicating reverence for the deceased. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, sheds light on the complex funerary rites of this prehistoric culture. The researchers, from the UK and US, noted that the treatment of the woman's remains cannot be paralleled in detail, but fits into a wider interaction between the living and the dead during the Iron Age in the British Isles. 
