@rachelmbray Merovingians liked "Salin style I" ornamentation— It's constructed from stylized dismembered limbs. :)pic.twitter.com/T1mgJOZthG
Elongated Merovingian skull unearthed in France — http://io9.com/french-archaeologists-discover-beautifully-preserved-de-1458835300 …
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@rachelmbray here's a better example. Look for hands and eyes and you'll start to see it.pic.twitter.com/PT6BunZEBl
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1.@rachelmbray This is just after the period of the Nydham bog deposits, where they ritually chopped up enemies weapons & threw 'em inna bog
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2.@rachelmbray chopped up bits may have been symbolic of victory. pretty grim. but combined with the lithe design, I find it haunting.
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@JakePowning is it weird that I'm more amazed at how nice the teeth are? Didn't expect them to have such good dental hygiene back then. -
@HayBudden very little sugar, also the Germanic elite were very fastidious and vain.
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