2600-Year-Old Human Brain Found In Bog
Posted by Ryan on April 19th, 2011
Archaeologists have recently unearthed a 2600-year-old human skull from a bog in the United Kingdom, and the skull contained what is believed to be one of the oldest known intact human brains. The skull belonged to a man in his thirties, who was hung, and then had his head cut off and thrown in the bog.
“The brain-containing skull was found at Heslington, Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom. O’Connor and her team suspect the site served a ceremonial function that persisted from the Bronze Age through the early Roman period. Many pits at the site were marked with single stakes. The remains of the man were without a body, but the scientists also found the headless body of a red deer that had been deposited into a channel.”
The brain had no evidence of fungal or bacteria and they described it as being “odorless…with a resilient, tofu-like texture.” Delicious.
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April 20th, 2011 at 6:29 am
Obviously scientists need to put that brain into a robot body and see what happens.
April 20th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
and that brain is probably still more active than my after Andrew blowing it so hard, so many times.
April 21st, 2011 at 3:19 am
I am assuming it wasn’t a man in his 30s who was hung, so much as hanged. Not that I’m meaning to insult a 2600 year old dead guy’s masculinity. : )
April 21st, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Touché. We will assume both.
April 23rd, 2011 at 2:29 pm
xalidus – you are absolutely correct.
I hate tofu.