Ten years ago researchers found bodies off the coast of Scotland that were dated to be about 3,000 years old. At first what interested the researchers was that some of the bodies were mummified, which marked the oldest mummification of corpses outside of Egypt. Then they noticed that the bones looked odd. For instance, the male skeleton had arthritis in its neck vertebrae but nowhere else on the spine. Also, the lower jaw had all its teeth, but there were none in the upper jaw. So researchers tested the bones and found out that the skeleton was made up of the torso and limbs of one man, the skull and neck of another, and the lower jaw from a third, possibly a woman. Likewise, a woman’s skeleton was similarly composed of the bones of three different people. The lower jaw, Read more…