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📸 This skull, pierced by an iron nail, belonged to a young man, between 16 and 18 years old, who died in the late third or early second century BC. We're in the Iberian town of Ullastret, located in the Baix Emporda region of Catalonia, home to the largest Iberian settlement in Catalonia dating to around 550 BC. Here, in the Iron Age, the heads of defeated enemies would be prepared and publically displayed alongside seized weapons. This ritual custom reaffirmed the powers of the leaders. It was common in Celtic cultures that head trophies were hung from the backs of horses or displayed in front of houses of victorious warriors. The inhabitants of Ullastret were the Indiketes, an ancient Iberian people who spoke the Iberian language. In 218 BC they were conquered by Rome during the Roman conquest of Hispania. They rebelled in 195 BC only to be crushed by the consul Marcus Porcious Cato. We've added the ancient DNA samples of the severed heads unearthed in Ullastret to our database... Could you be related?? If you have already taken a DNA test, you can use your raw data to find out (it's free!). Go to 👉 www.mytrueancestry.com