Amber eases Anna into Spooktober with some archaeological accounts of hands in... unexpected places. Links * The Second Intermediate Period: The Hyksos (slide show, via Brown University) [https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/historyofegyptone11/files/18876478.pdf] * Severed Hands Discovered in Ancient Egypt Palace (LiveScience) [severed-hands-ancient-egypt-palace.html">https://www.livescience.com/22267-severed-hands-ancient-egypt-palace.html] * Stone Age Horror! Pit Filled with Severed Limbs Uncovered (LiveScience) [pit-of-arms-uncovered.html">https://www.livescience.com/53341-pit-of-arms-uncovered.html] * A farewell to arms: a deposit of human limbs and bodies at Bergheim, France, c. 4000 BC (Antiquity) [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/farewell-to-arms-a-deposit-of-human-limbs-and-bodies-at-bergheim-france-c-4000-bc/7BAF839384B61CFA7586822269141CA2] * Hand of Glory (Whitby Museum) [https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/whats-here/collections/special-collections/hand-of-glory/] * Strange stone age skull-hands burial in Brazil has anthropologists stumped (News.com.au) [https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/strange-stoneage-skullhands-burial-in-brazil-has-anthropologists-stumped/news-story/f77a4520351b31c901d1ed7c3d99d886] * The Oldest Case of Decapitation in the New World (Lapa do Santo, East-Central Brazil) (PLOSOne) [https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0137456] * Ancient Roman 'hand of god' discovered near Hadrian's Wall sheds light on biggest combat operation ever in UK (The Independent) [god-ancient-roman-hadrians-wall-sculpture-bronze-found-latest-a8419131.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hand-god-ancient-roman-hadrians-wall-sculpture-bronze-found-latest-a8419131.html] * Archaeologists Make Rare, Gruesome Find in Portugal (MentalFloss) [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502454/archaeologists-make-rare-gruesome-find-portugal] * Canadian researchers say they can explain these imprints of disfigured human hands (National Post) [https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-researchers-say-cave-art-of-disfigured-hands-proves-paleolithic-people-cut-their-fingers-off-as-sacrifice] Contact * Email the Dirt Podcast: thedirtpodcast@gmail.com Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/] * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff] * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/] Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! [http://lyceum.fm/]