Handing It Over to Spooktober - Dirt 109

Amber eases Anna into Spooktober with some archaeological accounts of hands in... unexpected places.

Links

• The Second Intermediate Period: The Hyksos (slide show, via Brown University)

• Severed Hands Discovered in Ancient Egypt Palace (LiveScience)

• Stone Age Horror! Pit Filled with Severed Limbs Uncovered (LiveScience)

• A farewell to arms: a deposit of human limbs and bodies at Bergheim, France, c. 4000 BC (Antiquity)

• Hand of Glory (Whitby Museum)

• Strange stone age skull-hands burial in Brazil has anthropologists stumped (News.com.au)

• The Oldest Case of Decapitation in the New World (Lapa do Santo, East-Central Brazil) (PLOSOne)

• Ancient Roman ‘hand of god’ discovered near Hadrian’s Wall sheds light on biggest combat operation ever in UK (The Independent)

• Archaeologists Make Rare, Gruesome Find in Portugal (MentalFloss)

• Canadian researchers say they can explain these imprints of disfigured human hands (National Post)

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