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A WOMAN interred in Scotland 2000 years ago has peculiar scrape marks inside her skull, which suggest that removing the brain after death may have been a funerary tradition in Iron Age Britain. “The evenness and the regularity of the marks is really interesting and does suggest manipulation,” says Adelle Bricking at Museum Wales in the UK, who wasn’t involved in the research. “And why not brain removal? If they’re intentionally mummifying people in other ways, then such evisceration is part of that.” But Richard Madgwick at Cardiff University, UK, is less convinced. “The marks certainly suggest some manipulation of the cranium, but whether we can link them to the brain removal, I don’t know,” he says. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3600期 · 2026年6月20日,Chris Simms。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。