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Prehistoric skull-cups

Yes, but this is known from a specific prehistoric site, not from all early inhabitants of Britain. At Gough’s Cave in Somerset, archaeologists identified three human skulls deliberately shaped into cups; direct dating places them at about 14,700 years ago. Researchers interpret the evidence as showing that bodies were processed and human tissues consumed before the cups were made, although the meaning of the practice is inferred from archaeological traces. The illustration is AI-generated and is not an image of a real artifact.

синтетична редакційна музейна ілюстрація абстрактного контуру чаші з черепної кістки й кам’яного відщепу. Створено OpenAI image generation 12 жовтня 2026 року. Prompt: “A respectful editorial illustration for an archaeology publication about Palaeolithic skull-cups documented at Gough's Cave in Britain. Show an abstract museum-study still life: a simplified, clearly non-realistic paleolithic cranial-bone cup silhouette rendered as a neutral clay-colored contour beside a stone flake tool on a dark museum plinth. No blood, no gore, no people, no human remains realism, no claim to depict an actual artifact. Scholarly magazine graphic, muted ochre and slate palette, no text.” Не є фотографією чи реконструкцією конкретної знахідки.

синтетична редакційна музейна ілюстрація абстрактного контуру чаші з черепної кістки й кам’яного відщепу. Створено OpenAI image generation 12 жовтня 2026 року. Prompt: “A respectful editorial illustration for an archaeology publication about Palaeolithic skull-cups documented at Gough's Cave in Britain. Show an abstract museum-study still life: a simplified, clearly non-realistic paleolithic cranial-bone cup silhouette rendered as a neutral clay-colored contour beside a stone flake tool on a dark museum plinth. No blood, no gore, no people, no human remains realism, no claim to depict an actual artifact. Scholarly magazine graphic, muted ochre and slate palette, no text.” Не є фотографією чи реконструкцією конкретної знахідки.