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Title: Riddle of the ancient skulls found in watery grave
Post by: rangerrebew on February 14, 2018, 02:47:35 pm

Riddle of the ancient skulls found in watery grave

Wednesday February 14th 2018

An underwater burial site containing 8000-year-old battered skulls with some impaled on stakes has left archaeologists baffled. The watery grave located in east-central Sweden had 11 adults, seven of which showed signs of “blunt-force trauma” to their skulls although researchers said this did not kill them immediately as there were “signs of healing”.

Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/news/riddle-ancient-skulls-found-watery-grave/

Title: Re: Riddle of the ancient skulls found in watery grave
Post by: Suppressed on February 20, 2018, 08:36:58 pm

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/human-skulls-mounted-on-stakes-river-mystery-mesolithic-sweden-spd/

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