[BenLurkin]

Waited a year to collect their KIAs? Sounds to me like these were the losers, and not the winners

[SteveH]

pinnnnn

[JimRed]

Waited a year to collect their KIAs? Sounds to me like these were the losers, and not the winners

After the first couple of days without refrigeration, that would be a job no one wanted, win or lose.

[BenLurkin]

A skull of an Iron Age warrior discovered in a bog in Denmark shows signs of battle. Credit: Ejvind Hertz, Skanderborg Museum

Four pelvises strung on a stick were found at Alken Enge in Denmark. Credit: Peter Jensen, Aarhus Universitet

[mikrofon]

I suppose their hands would show the effects from constant or improper dunking ...

[Bigg Red]

Sounds to me like these were the losers, and not the winners

***
That was my thought, as well.

[P.O.E.]

Along with the pelvises strung like beads on a stick, there is evidence that leg bones and thighbones were sorted, too, he said.

Mrs. Bronze Age warrior was overheard to say, "I know it's a strange hobby but at least he's not out carousing."

[Smokin' Joe]

If you wanted to stop tripping over the bones, what better way than to round them up and dump them somewhere? A bog is a great spot, and somewhere you aren't likely to walk, anyway.

It seems it would be easier to carry a bunch of pelvises on a stick than in a stack, so why not? Leg bones would be easier to carry with other leg bones, and so forth. (Then you could stop tripping over some corpse when you went out to take a leak at night).

[null and void]

I wish tiamat (”Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!”) were here to ‘splain this...

[Grimmy]

Might also have been a whacko with OCD (the arranged bones) just moved into that area and had to follow his twitch to clean up.