questionmark Posted July 10, 2012 #1 Share Posted July 10, 2012 An international team of archaeologists have discovered that two mummies found on an island off the coast of Scotland are, like Dr. Frankenstein's monster, composed of body parts from several different humans. The mummified remains, as much as 3,500 years old, suggest that the first residents of the island of South Uist in the Hebrides had some previously unsuspected burial practices. The West Coast of South Uist was densely populated from around 2000 BC until the end of the Viking period around AD 1300. Researchers led by archaeologist Michael Parker-Pearson of the University of Sheffield have been working at a site near the modern graveyard of Cladh Hallan, which gives the site its name. The team has so far excavated three roundhouses from a village that was apparently occupied from around 2200 BC to 800 BC. A little more than a decade ago, they found the two skeletons under one of the houses, as well as the remains of a teenage girl and a 3-year-old child. Read more 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super-Fly Posted July 10, 2012 #2 Share Posted July 10, 2012 wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted July 10, 2012 #3 Share Posted July 10, 2012 They were making a video to post on Ye Olde YouTube. The Loch Ness Mangirlboy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules99 Posted July 10, 2012 #4 Share Posted July 10, 2012 I bought a near complete human skeleton last week, an old doctors example, professionally wired together etc. Sort of a strange thing to own and Im not sure I can get over that it was someone who was alive once. Its sort of striking when the reality hits. Interesting article .......thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted July 10, 2012 #5 Share Posted July 10, 2012 (edited) WAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!! That's probably just good clean fun! The team concluded that the skeleton has been assembled from parts of at least three bodies, some of which were separated by several hundred years of time. I bet it's some symbolic way of showing a succesion of chiefs or kings. Edited July 10, 2012 by OverSword Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ealdwita Posted July 10, 2012 #6 Share Posted July 10, 2012 "Puir auld Angus. He jist went tae pieces after he wis banned frae the pub!" 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted July 10, 2012 #7 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Could it have been early attempts at "seeing how things work" inside us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hetrodoxly Posted July 10, 2012 #8 Share Posted July 10, 2012 That's very strange and we'll never know the reason but one things for sure our ancestors were very complex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted July 10, 2012 #9 Share Posted July 10, 2012 They were just the spare bits that they didnt put in the Cooking Pot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paracelse Posted July 11, 2012 #10 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Researchers thought that they found two mummified corpses. But it turns out that they actually found six corpses--or maybe just parts of corpses. With the help of new DNA experiments, scientists have found that two 3,000-year-old Scottish mummies are actually assembled out of six different dead people, National Geographic News reported. The mummies were first discovered over a decade ago. When they were first discovered 2001, they appeared to be like any other ordinary mummy: one looked like a young boy, and the other appeared to be a teenaged girl. They were both buried in the fetal position and found below an 11th-century house off the Scottish coast. More here Why any society would mix body parts of dead people? Strange.. hope archeologists find more indications as to why that particular culture did that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted July 11, 2012 #11 Share Posted July 11, 2012 funny that nat. geo. should describe the skeletal remains as 'mummies' when it is clear there is no preservation of the fleshy tissue only bone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texaskat Posted July 11, 2012 #12 Share Posted July 11, 2012 This is a new one to me. I'm familiar with the 7 to 8 ft tall remains that were found. Which issue was this in? texaskat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 11, 2012 #13 Share Posted July 11, 2012 WAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!! That's probably just good clean fun! The team concluded that the skeleton has been assembled from parts of at least three bodies, some of which were separated by several hundred years of time. I bet it's some symbolic way of showing a succesion of chiefs or kings. The Human Centipede? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_centipede ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 11, 2012 #14 Share Posted July 11, 2012 (edited) This is a great and intriguing post, thanks QM. I have an uneduacted theory on what has happened. Assuming thes people belived in an afterlife or maybe reincarnation, they put together the parts of the strongest/cleverest/most respected villagers together for burial. this was done in the hope that they would excel in the afterlife or in reincarnation (even to help win 'The Highland Games' ). This is based more on the title of the thread ('Frankenstein' mummies found in Scotland) than my knowledge of South Uist in the Hebrides in 1310 BC. The articles idea of uniting a family is more reasonable but I do like my theory more... Edited July 11, 2012 by Junior Chubb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted July 11, 2012 #15 Share Posted July 11, 2012 This is a great and intriguing post, thanks QM. I have an uneduacted theory on what has happened. Assuming thes people belived in an afterlife or maybe reincarnation, they put together the parts of the strongest/cleverest/most respected villagers together for burial. this was done in the hope that they would excel in the afterlife or in reincarnation (even to help win 'The Highland Games' ). This is based more on the title of the thread ('Frankenstein' mummies found in Scotland) than my knowledge of South Uist in the Hebrides in 1310 BC. The articles idea of uniting a family is more reasonable but I do like my theory more... That is an interesting theory. They could ahve also done it to take the p..... lol "Aye, is'll confuse em, in eh Future." Maybe not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 11, 2012 #16 Share Posted July 11, 2012 (edited) That is an interesting theory. They could ahve also done it to take the p..... lol "Aye, is'll confuse em, in eh Future." Maybe not... Aye That did make me smile, and it has definitely confused them in the future, um well the present... Edited July 11, 2012 by Junior Chubb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skithia Posted July 11, 2012 #17 Share Posted July 11, 2012 There is a lot of burying people and animals under foundations that has gone on in the whole British Isles, perhaps some disaster struck the people of the settlement in a previous place so bits of the dead were buried under the new settlement hoping for some sort of warding that it wouldnt happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Fluffs Posted July 11, 2012 #18 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Oh god... I didn't hide the bodies of my latest victims that well. OT: Interesting article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 11, 2012 #19 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Oh god... I didn't hide the bodies of my latest victims that well. OT: Interesting article. You have aged well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Fluffs Posted July 11, 2012 #20 Share Posted July 11, 2012 You have aged well... Oh yeah. I'm a reptilian overlord, you see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csspwns Posted July 12, 2012 #21 Share Posted July 12, 2012 eww tats disgusting eww tats disgusting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pallidin Posted July 12, 2012 #22 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Maybe it's just some kinky form of afterlife bondage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted July 12, 2012 #23 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Maybe it's just some kinky form of afterlife bondage. Necrondage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOgLer Posted July 15, 2012 #24 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Spare parts shops existed even 3,500 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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