Posted on 02/04/2020 9:34:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have uncovered a 350-year-old massacre in Alaska that occurred during a war that may have started over a dart game. The discovery reveals the gruesome ways the people in a town were executed and confirms part of a legend that has been passed down over the centuries by the Yup'ik people.
A recent excavation in the town of Agaligmiut (which today is often called Nunalleq) has uncovered the remains of 28 people who died during the massacre and 60,000 well-preserved artifacts...
Some of the 28 people found "had been tied up with grass rope and executed," said Knecht, adding that "they were face down and some of them had holes in the back of their skulls from [what] looks like a spear or an arrow." ...
The massacre occurred during what historians called the "bow and arrow wars," a series of conflicts in Alaska during the 17th century. According to one Yup'ik legend, the conflict started during a game of darts when one boy accidently hit another in the eye with a dart. The father of the injured boy knocked out both eyes of the boy who caused the injury, the story goes. Then, a relative of the boy who had both eyes knocked out retaliated, the conflict escalating as other family members of the two boys got involved. The dart-game melee eventually resulted in a series of wars across Alaska and the Yukon.
"There's a number of different tales," Knecht said, adding that "what we do know is that the bow and arrow wars were during a period of time [called] the little ice age, where it went from quite a bit warmer than it is now to quite a bit colder in a very short period of time."
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Poignant photos.
Eskimos killing eskimos in a massacre?
Does Disney know about this?
Yeah, I get them confused, too...................
Wal, now, dart dere’s gonna smart, eye say...
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‘Face
I hate sites that allow that false “Your Windows are bad” crap ad.
These things are older than I thought...............
The way I hear it, one tribe was angry with the other because Russian collusion or something about restricting trade with the Yucrane tribe. Something like that.
I like science and history and all that but I can think of a lot of other places I would rather be digging for bones than up in Alaska.
It's literally a good example of why the idea of "an eye for an eye" was actually a legal improvement -- designed to prevent exactly the cycle of widening violence that occurred here.
The noble savage
I’m sure white people and their oppression were involved somewhere.
“”during a period of time [called] the little ice age, where it went from quite a bit warmer than it is now””
Must be because of the SUV dog sleds of the time.. mmmmm..
I see a very similar phenomenon quite regularly at youth hockey games.
The family names of the tribes translate roughly to “Hatfields” and “McCoys”.
Daid graphic. :^(
Iowa caucus dynamic?
Well, you or I might tolerate an accidental eye-darting, but the Eskimos are having nunavut.
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