"The skeleton, thought to be of a man aged between 40 and 50, had a heavy piece of ploughshare – an iron rod, used in a plough – hammered through its chest. The left leg below the knee had also been removed and left beside the skeleton."The BBC has a lengthy and well-written article on the history of lead intoxication in humans.
Deformutilation offers three galleries of photos of a Tibetan sky burial. Part I focuses on the "body breakers" who chop up corpses: "Hatchets and cleavers are used to make precise cuts in the flesh, which is then carved into chunks of 'meat'. The internal organs are then cut into pieces, the bones are smashed and then mixed with tsampa, roasted barley flour. This pulverized bone mixture is then scattered on the ground the birds descending to eat their meal..." Part II is here. And Part III. This donation of human flesh to the vultures is considered virtuous because it saves the lives of small animals that the vultures might otherwise capture for food." I shouldn't need to warn you that the images are graphic.
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a sphinyx from underneath sand dunes in California.
Archaeologists have found evidence of a human campgrounds at an elevation of 14,700 feet (4,480 meters) in the Peruvian Andes, dating to about 12,400 years B.P.
The "Giant Rock" in the Mojave Desert is quite interesting.
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