Flooding threatens villages today, yet we are able to build defences such as walls and reservoirs. Bronze Age people living in northern Europe had a more macabre solution, however.Ancient settlements offered hacked children’s skulls to the local lake gods in order to protect their homes, archaeologists have claimed.The skulls were found forming a protective ring around settlements near lakes in Switzerland and Germany.

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