I came across an interesting article on bodies that was buried with parts from several individuals. The article was called Scottist "Frankenstein" Mummies. These bodies were about 3,000 years old, and one of male and one of female found in the fetal position. It shows traces that it was intentionally preserved in the peat bogs. For the male body, it was made of three seperate men, its torso, skull and lower jaw. The female skeleton was a composite formed from a male skull, a female torso and the arm of a third person, whose gender cannot be determined. The carbon dating indicate that the skull of the female mummy is 50 to 200 years older than the torso.
The archaeologists hypothesize that the mixing of the remains could have belonged to a different ancestry or families into a single line of descent. However, it should never be presumed to think so. It's fascinating to think about how the people who buried this "individual(s)" could have placed it so it looked like A person, and that to put it into a fetal position. I wonder if the archaeologists thought differently when they first excavated the site. Did it really look like it was just one individual? Or were the placement of certain parts.. a little off? And if we do find more of these, what other theories will archaeologists think of? Haha.
http://www.archaeology.org/issues/63-features/top-10//272-top-10-2012-frankenstein-mummies
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