Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals

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• merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  whose skull was it?

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hicks found no record of the person whose remains the skull-cup was made from, although carbon dating showed the skull is about 225 years old. Its size and circumstantial evidence suggest it came from the Caribbean and possibly belonged to an enslaved woman, he added.

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