One of the severed heads found at Ullastret (Girona, Spain).Credit: Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC)-Ullastret a De Prado, 2015
Posted on 03/01/2025 6:51:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The practice of the nailed heads ritual varied among Iberian communities in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, rather than representing a uniform symbolic expression. In some settlements, the display of external individuals served as a symbol of power and intimidation, while others may have prioritized the veneration of their own community members.
This conclusion comes from a study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), which analyzed the mobility patterns of Iron Age human communities from the last millennium BCE. Researchers examined seven skulls with embedded nails, belonging to men from two archaeological sites: the ancient city of Ullastret (located in present-day Girona) and the settlement of Puig Castellar (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona)...
Severed heads were a unique funerary practice within the Iberian world and represent an exceptional opportunity to analyze these communities, of which very little archaeological record exists since cremation was the predominant burial ritual. This practice consisted of the public exhibition of the skulls of certain individuals, subjected to a post-mortem treatment. Some of these skulls have been recovered with signs of nailing and in some cases with an iron nail still in place...
The results of the strontium isotopes of the sediment and vegetation allowed researchers to define the reference range of the strontium in the area near each site (bioavailable strontium). This in turn made it possible to discern which individuals coincided or not with this range and, therefore, identify whether they were local or not.
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One of the severed heads found at Ullastret (Girona, Spain).Credit: Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC)-Ullastret a De Prado, 2015
Thanks for the link! Excedrin Headache Number 1000 BC.
Looks like a splitting headache to me, for sure!
‘Face
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I used to get headaches like that.
Exedrin headache #842….
Hope he was dead before the insertion of the nail.
You don’t nail up heads of people you like.
vampire or other undead mitigation
LOL
Ancient Europe is not a place and time that I would have liked to been at all. They were savage.
Maybe some erratic chariot-driving?
I’ve often seen signs above freeways declaring, “DRIVE HAMMERED; GET NAILED”.
exactly, the smell and the flies alone.
These researchers are idiots if they think so. Sounds like something a raiding party would do, nail heads to the outer wall and then more heads up outside of buildings where they found people hiding.
The whole exercise was to instill terror in others.
“Are you sure he’s dead?”
“Just a minute………”
Tap tap tap
“Yep, he’s dead.”
“Yeah, well, he did do that. Yeah, yeah. He was a cruel man, but fair.”
Dinsdale?
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Killed by the nailing, or nailed after death?
Found this file in the "On Deck" folder, compiled in December I think, anyway, possible upcoming topics pool, I think I've edited out those that have been used:
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