16/10/2024 By mrbill
A little-known period of Scandinavian prehistory has recently yielded some of the most extraordinary human remains ever found. Lying atop a dense layer of stone at the bottom of a small lake were pieces of ten humans who lived around 6000 BC. Even stranger than their location in a lake was what happened to them: most had shattered skulls, and two retained remnants of long wooden spikes that suggest their heads may have been dismembered and violently exposed.