Brain Diggers – 7,000 year old mummy decapitation in Florida

A construction worker is clearing a path through a Florida bog known as the Windover pond when his digger unearths something macabre: a human skull 7,000 years old. So begins the story of one of North America’s most important archaeological finds.

The preservation of the skull suggests someone who died just years ago but when carbon dating results return the archaeological world is stunned. The skull belonged to someone over 7,000 years old — twice as old as the pyramids.

So begins the story of one of North America’s most important archaeological finds. The peat they had been buried in had worked a miracle because inside the skulls there was a mysterious substance which proved be a Stone Age brain.

Even more remarkably DNA was recovered inside. All evidence was suggesting this ancient tribe were caring, compassionate and peaceful yet they were about to make another shocking discovery that hinted at something darker: one skeleton had been the victim of a gruesome decapitation.

Now archaeologist Glen Doran is applying cutting-edge science to solve this riddle of the dead.

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