Headhunting, Migration, and Ancient DNA in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Ian Armit
Tides of History
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The Celtic Cult of the Head
Head hunting is tied up with ideas of fertility, ideas of power, ideas of gender. It's often co-opted by emerging elites as a way of demonstrating power and prestige. There's a massive evidence for it, not just in the Iron Age, but in other periods too. We have a tremendous iconography around head hunting where you have lots of statues which borrows from Greek sculpture.
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