An Iron Age human skeleton with some unsettling modifications was discovered inside a stone cairn on what is now Scotland's north-western coast. The cairn – and the two skeletons it entombed – was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The preserved long bones (right and left humeri, left ulna and left femur) show signs of whittling or working into a point.

An individual buried some 2,000 years ago in what is now Scotland probably had her brain removed and some of her limb bones turned into tools after she died 1. The individual, a female adult aged at ...

Newly uncovered bones hint at how Iron Age Britons treated their dead. Plus, AI models have failed to beat human mathematicians at research-level problems and the everyday items that make great ...

Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived. However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that ...