The inside of the skull of Individual 1 shows cut marks, possibly made during brain removal.
(Image credit: Castells Navarro et al. / Antiquity Publications Ltd.)
About 2,000 years ago in the far North of Scotland, a woman was buried after her brain was scooped out and her bones were whittled into tools, a new analysis reveals.
The highly unusual burial is giving archaeologists new insight into social networks and funeral traditions in prehistoric Britain.
Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have also appeared in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss. Kristina holds a Ph.D. in biological anthropology and an M.A. in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina, as well as a B.A. in Latin from the University of Virginia, and she was formerly a university professor and researcher. She has received awards from the Society for American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association for her science writing.
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