SCIENTISTS have uncovered a mass grave dating back 6,200 years - and one of the dead met their end in a particularly grim way.

A woman's head appears to have been brutally bashed in by a broad-edged object.

Experts noticed a very prominent triangular fracture on the left side of the head.

But they're stumped about whether it was a deliberate act of murder or a tragic accident.

The skeleton was part of a major haul unearthed in Iran .

Archaeologists also spotted something strange about the woman's head shape too.

The skull is cone-shaped which suggests it was deliberately modified when she was a child in a process known as cranial bandaging .

This is where fabric is wrapped around the head tightly around the skull of young ones when it's much softer.

Others with the same type of

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