Archaeologists have long puzzled over the severed heads found in Ancient Iberian Iron Age sites, displayed with nails driven through their skulls or hung in prominent locations. Were these gruesome ...

Our ancient ancestors have done some interesting things to human bones over the years, but one example from the Iron Age ...

Napoleon considered the Iberian Peninsula another world — with ... It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated their ...

which could represent a war trophy. The results of the study reveal for the first time direct evidence of human mobility patterns during the Iron Age in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula ...

Through isotopic analysis of severed heads found in the Iberian Iron Age settlements of Puig Castellar ... others proposed that they were war trophies taken from foreign enemies. However, these ...

The team believes that this could represent a war trophy. The study shows some direct evidence of how prehistoric humans moved around the northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age.

The ancient Iberian practice of severing the heads of ... suggesting that it could instead represent more of a war trophy. All of the Ullastret skulls are believed to have belonged to adults ...

Severed heads: more than just simple war trophies Severed heads were a unique funerary practice within the Iberian world and represent an exceptional opportunity to analyse these communities ...