Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Severed heads like these were a unique funerary practice within the Iron Age Iberian world. For archaeologists and anthropologists ...

The nailed heads ritual did not correspond to the same symbolic expression among the Iberian communities of the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, but rather a practice that differed in each ...

The study of skull fragments from the Olèrdola (Olèrdola, Barcelona) and Molí d'Espígol (Tornabous, Lleida) sites has provided new evidence that would allow the ritual of "severed heads" from the ...

The ancient Iberian practice of severing the heads of the dead, driving a giant nail through their skulls and putting them on display may have been more complex than we thought. This is the conclusion ...

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