Macabre burial practices of Iron Age Britons revealed
By Liam Proud
First published 4 March 2016
An analysis of 2,000-year-old bones suggests pre-Roman Britons frequently interacted with their dead, often by digging up corpses or retrieving decomposing body parts.
The study calls into question the prevailing 'sky burial' theory of Iron Age funerary rites, which holds that most bodies were left to decompose in the open.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2016/march/macabre-burial-practices-of-iron-age-britons-revealed.html
