Children’s skulls encircled Bronze Age villages to ward off flooding

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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