Game of Thrones Osteology: A Mormont Skull-Cup
These Bones Of Mine,
Ever since the recent finale of season seven of the television series Game of Thrones (1), I’ve been revisiting the earlier…
Ever since the recent finale of season seven of the television series Game of Thrones (1), I’ve been revisiting the earlier…
Cannibalism is not uncommon; almost every documented culture has done it. In the cave dwellings of Homo antecessor, the common…
Kilkanaście tysięcy lat temu w jednej z brytyjskich jaskiń urządzano kanibalistyczne biesiady. Zdaniem badaczy do podobnych…
In this round-up, we would like to share with you some of the PLoS ONE articles covered by the media in 2011. It was really…
Greetings, my friendsI have alluded briefly on a previous occasion to the somewhat unfortunate posthumous history of my head.
Greetings, my…
In this PLoS ONE media digest: four new species of Zombie-ant fungus are found, ancient Britons drink out of skull cups, Jimmy…
"Skull-cups found in Somerset, England, were worked with flint tools 14,700 years ago." Source of caption and photo: online…
Earliest Directly-Dated Human Skull-CupsBackground The use of human braincases as drinking cups and containers has extensive …
I had no idea that skull-caps as drinking vessels is not an ethnographic oddity, but a widely attested practice. Besides the…
Skulls unearthed in a Somerset cave were skilfully fashioned into cups with the rest of the bodies probably being cannibalisedA…
“The skull of Wynric Lance, failed claimant to the throne of Eirea, does not make as good a wine goblet as Lord Shryke had…