16 June, 2025

6,200-year-old ‘cone-headed’ skull found in Iran reveals cranial modification and death by blunt force

 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/6200-year-old-cone-headed-skull-found-in-iran/

Head binding to look like the gods. I wonder if this caused headaches, I imagine it would have because the binding would have been tight and over a long period of time. Poor children having to suffer for parental obsession over their children as a status symbol emulating beings that they worshipped. 


HALLOWEEN by Robert Burns (1759-1796)

  Upon that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for C...