The Mysterious Iberian Nailed Skulls: New Findings Challenge Old Beliefs

SciTechDaily ^ | February 27, 2025 | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

[SunkenCiv]

One of the severed heads found at Ullastret (Girona, Spain).

Credit: Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC)-Ullastret a De Prado, 2015

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the link! Excedrin Headache Number 1000 BC.

• Territorialisation and human mobility during the Iron Age in NE Iberia: An approach through Isotope Analyses of the Severed Heads from Puig Castellar (Barcelona, Spain) and Ullastret (Girona, Spain) Author links open overlay panel | Rubén de la Fuente-Seoane (et al) | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports | Volume 62, April 2025, 105035
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[ClearCase_guy]

[Monkey Face]

Looks like a splitting headache to me, for sure!

‘Face

;o]

[tet68]

I used to get headaches like that.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

[telescope115]

Exedrin headache #842….

[redangus]

Hope he was dead before the insertion of the nail.

[rdl6989]

That’s a full grown adult sized bangaroo.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xhI9eq743Ng

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You don’t nail up heads of people you like.

[Lee N. Field]

vampire or other undead mitigation

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[wildcard_redneck]

Ancient Europe is not a place and time that I would have liked to been at all. They were savage.

[Migraine]

Maybe some erratic chariot-driving?

I’ve often seen signs above freeways declaring, “DRIVE HAMMERED; GET NAILED”.

[TexasFreeper2009]

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.

[bk1000]

“Are you sure he’s dead?”

“Just a minute………”

Tap tap tap

“Yep, he’s dead.”

[dfwgator]

“Yeah, well, he did do that. Yeah, yeah. He was a cruel man, but fair.”

[Lurker]

Dinsdale?

L

[JimRed]

Killed by the nailing, or nailed after death?

[SunkenCiv]

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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• Ice Age Bone Needles Discovered in Wyoming [12/05/2024]
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• Artifacts Recovered From Thermal Bath Site in Tuscany [12/04/2024]
• Archaeologist's 150-Year-Old Message in a Bottle Found in Norway [12/03/2024]
• Denmark Will Return Bronze Sculpture to Turkey [12/02/2024]
• Prehistoric Stone Circles Discovered in England [12/02/2024]
• How Peaches Spread Across North America [11/27/2024]
• New Subway in Northern Greece Showcases City's Archaeology [11/26/2024]
• 4,000-Year-Old Canals Identified in Belize [11/26/2024]