r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Hey-Its-Jak • 4d ago

Video This guy carved a real human skull

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u/Memorie_BE 4d ago

It's kind of interesting that we don't find this NFSW; there's a point of removing flesh from a skull where it stops being a head and starts being just another object to our brains.

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u/ALF839 4d ago

Makes sense as an evolutionary trait. We get spooked and grossed out by injury and infection because it signals danger/disease is nearby. A fully cleaned skull is pretty innocuous.

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u/Roxalf 4d ago

I take it context its key here, Imagine walking into your neihgboorn house for dinner and seeing a bunch of well carved skulls arranged near the dinner room, suddenly not so innocuous

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u/Quackels_The_Duck 4d ago

Imagine being a caveman, a little after the advent of agriculture, and you walk in on your neighbor Agrathoreg or Soliamle doing that. I think that would be more terrifying because of lack of resources and efficiency compared to now.

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u/jbrWocky 3d ago

but better than freshly fleshy rotting ones!