Author: Vittoria Traverso / Source: Atlas Obscura
Between 2009 and 2011, archaeologists digging the Kanaljorden site, on what was once a shallow lake near the Motala ström river in central Sweden, came across a unsettling discovery—the remains of a stone structure packed with 10 humans skulls, animal bones, and wooden sticks.
A team of researchers, led by Sara Gummesson, an archaeologist at Stockholm University, recently published a study about the finds in the journal Antiquity. The skulls date to the Mesolithic period, between 6000 and 5000 B.C., when hunter-gatherers lived in two settlements on opposite sides of the lake, which is now a peat fen.
They identified two skulls as female and four as male, and one belonged to an infant. All of the adult skulls show signs of trauma, with different patterns according to gender: Both female skulls have multiple injuries to the back of the head,…
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