Handing It Over to Spooktober - Ep 109

Amber eases Anna into Spooktober with some archaeological accounts of hands in... unexpected places.

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• The Second Intermediate Period: The Hyksos (slide show, via Brown University)

• Severed Hands Discovered in Ancient Egypt Palace (LiveScience)

• Stone Age Horror! Pit Filled with Severed Limbs Uncovered (LiveScience)

• A farewell to arms: a deposit of human limbs and bodies at Bergheim, France, c. 4000 BC (Antiquity)

• Hand of Glory (Whitby Museum)

• Strange stone age skull-hands burial in Brazil has anthropologists stumped (News.com.au)

• The Oldest Case of Decapitation in the New World (Lapa do Santo, East-Central Brazil) (PLOSOne)

• Ancient Roman ‘hand of god’ discovered near Hadrian’s Wall sheds light on biggest combat operation ever in UK (The Independent)

• Archaeologists Make Rare, Gruesome Find in Portugal (MentalFloss)

• Canadian researchers say they can explain these imprints of disfigured human hands (National Post)

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October Bonus Episode - Deep Cuts - Ep 67b

Deep Cuts from October episodes.

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Still Spooktober: They Built It on a Haunted Burial Ground - Ep 67

Spooktober winds to a close once again, and we end with a mystery. Bundle up and join Anna and Amber at Roopkund Lake, where bones scatter the shore and speculation and science meet. Who were the people whose skeletal remains keep appearing in a remote lake in northern India? How did they get there? How might we find out?

Links

• Nanda Devi Raaj Jat Yatra (Uttarakhand Tourism)

• 10 Things You Should Know About Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra (eUttarakhand)

• Roopkund Lake (EcoIndia)

• There's A Frozen Lake In India That's Full Of Skeletons. What On Earth Happened Here? (IFL Science)

• Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (Atlas Obscura)

• Mystery Solved - The Skeleton Lake of India (Science, Dummy) cw: human remains

• Inside Roopkund Lake, The Curious Indian Lake Where Skeletons Wash Ashore (All That’s Interesting)

• Tourists to Roopkund trek back with human skeletons (The Indian Express)

• The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper (The Atlantic)

• Biomolecular analyses of Roopkund skeletons show Mediterranean migrants in Indian Himalaya (Phys.org)

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