Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...

Self-described "human blood artist" Jeremy Pauley was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to abuse of a corpse. Facebook / Jeremy Lee Pauley A self-described “human blood artist” ...