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   A man who lived some 1,500 years ago may have had his tongue cut   
   out, though archaeologists, who found his remains buried with a   
   flat rock in his mouth, are not sure the reason for the possible   
   amputation.   
      
   The skeleton was excavated in 1991 near the village of Stanwick   
   in Britain. But it wasn't until recently that a team led by   
   Simon Mays, a human skeletal biologist with Historic England, a   
   public group that promotes England's history, did an in-depth   
   analysis of the skeleton.   
      
   The skeleton belongs to a male who was between 25 and 35 years   
   old when he died, they found. When alive, the man suffered a   
   serious oral infection that spread to other parts of his body   
   and led to new bone growth in his mouth and other parts of his   
   skull. A tongue amputation, Mays said, could cause just such an   
   infection. [The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth]   
      
   Additionally, the team analyzed several other burials — dating   
   between the third and seventh centuries A.D. — which had been   
   excavated over the past few decades in Britain. They found   
   several burials in which a skeleton's head was missing, likely   
   due to decapitation , and in its place was a rock or pot. In one   
   instance, a skeleton was found with its left foot missing — a   
   pot put in its place.   
      
   After analyzing the evidence, they researchers concluded that   
   the flat rock in the man's mouth may have been "a symbolic   
   replacement for [a] tongue that was amputated in this individual   
   during the lifetime of this man," Mays said. He cautioned that   
   "we still have other scientific studies that we want to do on   
   this and other burials."   
      
   Mysterious amputation   
   Why the man's tongue would be cut out is a mystery. Excavation   
   photographs taken in 1991 reveal that the man's skeleton was   
   found facedown with his right arm sticking out at an unusual   
   angle, possible evidence that the man was tied up when he died,   
   Mays said.   
      
   However, Mays said that so far his team has found no evidence in   
   ancient texts that the cutting out of tongues was practiced as a   
   form of punishment when the man was alive — a time when the   
   Romans controlled Britain.   
      
   Mays' team also examined modern-day medical literature, looking   
   for more clues. They found that "people who are suffering   
   epileptic fits or people suffering from neurological diseases,   
   such as Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease , quite often   
   bite their tongues or bite their lips," Mays said. However, "I   
   wasn't able to come across any cases of that sort where there   
   was complete severing of the tongue."   
      
   Mays did find cases in the modern medical literature in which   
   people suffering from severe mental illnesses had psychotic   
   episodes and bit off their tongue. As such, the ancient man may   
   have suffered from such an illness, Mays said. He added that he   
   may have been tied up when he died because people in the   
   community thought of him as a threat.   
      
   Mays' team presented these preliminary results recently in   
   Toronto at the joint annual meeting of the Archaeological   
   Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies.   
      
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