Prehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog

Discovery ^ | Wed Apr 6, 2011 05:30 AM ET | By Jennifer Viegas

[ExTexasRedhead]

I’m sure that’s where Pelosi’s brain must be hidden; in the muck.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***A brain in near-perfect condition is found in a skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago.****

Was there a jug of milk gravy nearby?

[Red Badger]

No, and no scrambled eggs either...........;^)

[Red Badger]

He doesn’t either...........

[SunTzuWu]

I know this one isn’t THAT old, but this statement above is what we’ve been saying about fossils in general for a long time.

Read (or reread) the article. In particular, this line...
While other soft human body parts may not preserve well under such conditions, the wet environment appears to be perfect for keeping brains "fresh," "due to the very different chemistry of brain tissue,"

This kind of environment works for brains but not other body tissue. There is also a big difference between a couple thousand years and tens of millions of years.

[tet68]

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNS.
Num

[nonsporting]

[Two Kids' Dad]

Do it! That would be great if you got on the air and told them a nice long fable with all sorts of details.

[MrB]

To fossilize an organism and keep it from decaying in the process, requires rapid burial in sediment, which requires massive water movement.

Billions of dead things buried in rock layers all over the earth. Global Flood.

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

We have 90 bog mummies with perfectly preserved 8,000 year old brains in Florida:

Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)

* 90 intact human brains that include the oldest DNA samples in the World.

* Tests showed the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago. The youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago."

"To put this into context," Doran said, "these people had already been dead for 3,000 or 4,000 years before the first stones were laid for the Egyptian pyramids!"

[BIGLOOK]

The first organ to perish after the heart stops and life ends is the brain, usually in the first few minutes. Putrefaction occurs rapidly after that, within one to three days.

However there are exceptions; in Democrats the heart usually stops years before the demise of the subject, yet the decaying brain persists in an ever limiting capacity. This has been a puzzle that most forensic examiners have yet to explain. Pickling is a possibility as Ted Kennedy's case in point suggests.

[Gator113]

Good. :>)

[Red Badger]

We have 90 bog mummies with perfectly preserved 8,000 year old brains in Florida:

Yea, but the Florida Legislature doesn't count.................

[wildbill]

Perhaps there is another reason for this seemingly magic piclkling.

It could be that this pre-historic man was simply one of the early partakers of uisge beatha, meaning literally ‘water of life’.

I’d like to think of him convivially going to his last reward, full of the comforting warmth from a single malt.

[Red Badger]

Somebody cut his head off.
And it wasn’t and accident.................

[wildbill]

Probably cut off by the original chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Drinkers.

They have no limits to their zeal.

[Popman]

When did 2,600 years old be considered prehistoric ?

I was always under the impression that prehistoric meant before written history was developed in a culture

[MARTIAL MONK]

According to the article, he was hung first then they cut off his head.

I'm hung. He's hanged.

[Red Badger]

When did 2,600 years old be considered prehistoric ?

You're just asking for a picture of Helen Thomas to be posted aren't you?...........