Headhunting, Migration, and Ancient DNA in Iron Age Europe: Interview with Professor Ian Armit
Tides of History
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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