Handing It Over to Spooktober - Dirt 109

Amber eases Anna into Spooktober with some archaeological accounts of hands in... unexpected places. Links The Second Intermediate Period: The Hyksos (slide show, via Brown University) Severed Hands Discovered in Ancient Egypt Palace (LiveScience) Stone Age Horror! Pit Filled with Severed Limbs Uncovered (LiveScience) A farewell to arms: a deposit of human limbs and bodies at Bergheim, France, c. 4000 BC (Antiquity) Hand of Glory (Whitby Museum) Strange stone age skull-hands burial in Brazil has anthropologists stumped (News.com.au) The Oldest Case of Decapitation in the New World (Lapa do Santo, East-Central Brazil) (PLOSOne) Ancient Roman ‘hand of god’ discovered near Hadrian’s Wall sheds light on biggest combat operation ever in UK (The Independent) Archaeologists Make Rare, Gruesome Find in Portugal (MentalFloss) Canadian researchers say they can explain these imprints of disfigured human hands (National Post) Contact Email the Dirt Podcast: [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.