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)
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)
Archaeologists Make Rare, Gruesome Find in Portugal (MentalFloss)
Canadian researchers say they can explain these imprints of disfigured human hands (National Post)