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Mass Grave Found in California Reveals Prehistoric Violence Against ‘Outsiders’
Western Digs ^ | September 28, 2015 | Blake de Pastino

Posted on 10/02/2015 11:34:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

...Now, chemical analysis has revealed that the men were far from home when they were killed, up to several days’ journey from where they were born and raised.

The discovery is only the most recent example of violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the region, anthropologists say. But it bears important lessons about the nature of conflict and warfare in pre-contact California...

The grave was unearthed in 2012 during the construction of a shopping center in the town of Pleasanton, in the Amador Valley just east of Oakland...

One of the men suffered a severe blow above the left eye, causing fractures that radiated through the side of his skull.

Another took a blow above the right eye, and a flake of obsidian was found by his pelvis.

Still another contained a biface, or knife-shaped blade, made of chert between his ribs.

All of the remains returned the same radiocarbon range, dating to around the year 850 CE.

(Excerpt) Read more at westerndigs.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; california; godsgravesglyphs; obsidian; precolumbian; precolumbiangenocide
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A digitized representation of Burial 85 shows the burial style and relative positioning of the seven men. (Image courtesy Eerkens et al., used with permission.)

A digitized representation of Burial 85 shows the burial style and relative positioning of the seven men. (Image courtesy Eerkens et al., used with permission.)

1 posted on 10/02/2015 11:34:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
The discovery is only the most recent example of violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the region, anthropologists say.

Boy, there's a shock.

2 posted on 10/02/2015 11:48:25 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: SunkenCiv
Really interesting - thanks for posting.

I was completely unfamiliar with the pre-contact history of California.

The information about five major mitochondrial DNA lines among Native Americans is also completely new for me.

3 posted on 10/02/2015 11:56:33 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: SunkenCiv

Bttt.


4 posted on 10/02/2015 11:58:26 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: SunkenCiv
This event could easily have happened in modern California with more up-to-date weapons. I think mankind is hardwired for war. If people would accept that notion and embrace it they could learn how to manage it on a national scale. Native Americans and many other cultures developed ritual warfare. One form involves combat between two individuals from warring tribes. This avoided mass casualties which could endanger the collective gene pool.
5 posted on 10/03/2015 12:01:26 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: SunkenCiv

” the men were far from home when they were killed, up to several days’ journey from where they were born and raised.”

This illustrates why men don’t ask for directions when travelling. It marks you as an “outsider”; and it’s not good to be an outsider in a bad neighbourhood.


6 posted on 10/03/2015 12:24:54 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: SunkenCiv

Proto-American Lives Matter!


7 posted on 10/03/2015 12:44:55 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

{”This illustrates why men don’t ask for directions when travelling. It marks you as an “outsider”; and it’s not good to be an outsider in a bad neighbourhood.”}

Best Comment Award!

Wish I had said it and will tell people I did. :)


8 posted on 10/03/2015 12:50:04 AM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner Down! Lots more to go....)
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To: SunkenCiv

“C.E.”?!
What is that, Century Entertainment?


9 posted on 10/03/2015 12:57:29 AM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: SunkenCiv

Work like this helps maintain my faith in real science. Selective tree-ring analysis to support a political agenda represents science gone wrong. The study reported here shows what can happen when intelligent people apply scientific tools and methods to real data.

And no mention of “climate change”.


10 posted on 10/03/2015 12:58:41 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: zeestephen

Pre-contact is a term that’s bound for oblivion, I’m sure, because it’s Eurocentric. :’) What, only EUROPEANS were CAPABLE of CROSSING the OCEAN?!? RACIST! ;’) And, just like that, the Clovis-first-and-only people turn into Ezra Pound. Or some more appropriate analogy.


11 posted on 10/03/2015 12:59:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Calpublican; Brad from Tennessee

Hey, we wouldn’t get lost if *someone* wouldn’t distract us with constant cries of “where are we?” and “why don’t you stop and ask for directions” because *that person* is completely unable to understand how to get from a to b.


12 posted on 10/03/2015 1:02:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Bikkuri

“Crazy-effers’”.


13 posted on 10/03/2015 1:05:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

whoops.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3344119/posts?page=12#12


14 posted on 10/03/2015 1:05:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: AZLiberty

;’)


15 posted on 10/03/2015 1:05:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: AZLiberty

The dead guys were all Deniers, that’s the real reason they were killed. ;’)


16 posted on 10/03/2015 1:09:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Brad from Tennessee; Little Bill

There’s a Stone Age site somewhere along the Nile valley, 15,000 years old or so; if it had been made of more durable materials it would be called a city due to its size. All that remained were the post-holes and many thousands of arrow- and spear-heads from the battle that resulted in the burning of the whole place to the ground and permanent abandonment of the site. Sounds an awful lot like a war to me. :’) The notion of the Noble Savage is long gone, or I like to think so, and at its heart is a bigoted notion. Before 1492 (and before every other point of contact, IMHO the seas have never been much of an obstacle) tribe attacked tribe, city-state destroyed city-state, it was one big long vicious kill-o-rama.


17 posted on 10/03/2015 1:14:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: dr_lew

EARLY HISTORY OF COMPTON


18 posted on 10/03/2015 2:55:16 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SunkenCiv

year 850 CE?


19 posted on 10/03/2015 3:13:00 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: SunkenCiv

“The discovery is only the most recent example of violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the region, anthropologists say. But it bears important lessons about the nature of conflict and warfare in pre-contact California.”

...but I just thought they smoked peace pipes and hummed at Mt. Shasta during the Harmonic Convergence. Am I misinformed?


20 posted on 10/03/2015 3:24:46 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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