It's called Britain's oldest brain, and 2,600 years ago it belonged to an Iron Age man who was likely bashed over the head and decapitated. Details like folds in the brain were still intact in the incredibly well-preserved find, researchers say.
It's called Britain's oldest brain, and 2,600 years ago it belonged to an Iron Age man who was likely bashed over the head and decapitated.
In 2008, York Archaeological Trust researchers were excavating the Heslington Iron Age site at the University of York when they uncovered the man's skull face down in a clay-rich pit. The jaw and two vertebrae were still attached. But while cleaning the skull, they realized there was more than just dirt inside. "I peered though the hole at the base of the skull to investigate and to my surprise saw a quantity of bright yellow spongy material.
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