Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe

AP, via Yahoo News ^ | Aug 17, 2015 | FRANK JORDANS

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BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave with skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers bearing terrible wounds.

Archaeologists who painstakingly examined the bones of some 26 men, women and children buried in the Stone Age grave site at Schoeneck-Kilianstaedten, near Frankfurt, say they found blunt force marks to the head, arrow wounds and deliberate efforts to smash at least half of the victims' shins — either to stop them from running away or as a grim message to survivors.

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"What is particularly interesting is the level of violence. Not just the suppression of a rival community — if that is what it was — but the egregious and systematic breaking of the lower legs," said Scarre. "It suggests the use of terror tactics as part of this inter-community violence."

Meyer, an anthropologist at the University of Mainz, Germany, said nobody can say for sure what prompted the killings so long after the fact. But it's possible to put forward theories, based on what's known about the LBK culture and the conditions they faced. For example, the end of LBK culture coincided with a period of climate change.

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I just found this link at the whole article for the story above. Talk about EVIL. It tells about ISIL executing the 82 year old antiquarian for Palmyra and hanging his body in public. SC - I think this deserves a separate posting, whether GGG or Catastraphism or both, I can’t even begin to decide!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-militants-behead-archaeologist-palmyra-syrian-official-210219516.html

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Original of that Yahoo story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/18/us-mideast-crisis-archaeology-idUSKCN0QN24K20150818