'frankenstein' scotland mummies made of different people

[zerozero]

I'm not ok with this.. if you're going to mummify someone at least have the decency to not join in limbs from someone else lol

"Frankenstein" Bog Mummies Discovered in Scotland

Based on the condition and structures of the skeletons, scientists had previously determined that the bodies had been placed in a peat bog just long enough to preserve them and then removed. The skeletons were then reburied hundreds of years later.

(Related pictures: "Ancient Bog Girl's Face Reconstructed.")

Terry Brown, a professor of biomedical archaeology at the University of Manchester, said there were clues that these bog bodies were more than they seemed.

On the female skeleton, "the jaw didn't fit into the rest of the skull," he said. "So Mike [Parker Pearson, of Sheffield University] came and said, Could we try to work it out through DNA testing?"

Brown sampled DNA from the female skeleton's jawbone, skull, arm, and leg. The results show that bones came from different people, none of whom even shared the same mother, he said.

The female is made from body parts that date to around the same time period. But isotopic dating showed that the male mummy is made from people who died a few hundred years apart.

 

[Mowgli]

Ol circle in the square ass barbarians.

 

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