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Kristina Killgrove

2,000 years ago in Scotland, people removed a corpse's brain and fashioned the arm bones into tools

On the left, a photo of the inside of a human skull with scratch marks; on the right, a closeup showing the marks.

About 2,000 years ago in the far North of Scotland, a woman was buried after her brain was scooped out and her bones were whittled into tools, a new analysis reveals.

The highly unusual burial is giving archaeologists new insight into social networks and funeral traditions in prehistoric Britain.

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