Posted on 08/09/2014 3:17:33 PM PDT by lbryce
The bones of dozens of Iron Age warriors found in Denmark were collected and ritually mutilated after spending months on the battlefield, archaeologists say.
At least six months after the soldiers died, their bones were collected, scraped of remaining flesh, sorted and dumped in a lake. Some were handled in a truly bizarre manner; for instance, four pelvises were found strung on a stick.
"We think it's a kind of ritual closure of the war," said Mads Kähler Holst, project manager at the dig and head of the department of archaeology at the Moesgård Museum in Denmark. The victors seem to have carried out their gruesome work on a spit of land extending into the lake where the bones were dumped, the researchers said. [See Photos of the Mutilated Iron Age Skeletons]
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The record of history remains incomplete until it gets posted by sunkenciv.
Ed Gein
Ed’s Gein is our loss.
I know if the park down the street had rotting corpses in it, it might be a tad annoying...:)
Ha!!
When Harald Greycloak was overthrown by his own son Erick Forkbeard, everyone knew the fall of civilization was coming sooner or later.
Now Obama has finished the job.
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".
I’m not buying their conjecture. Word in the ‘hood is Grendel’s old man tried to make up to Grendel’s mama after he’d been steppin’ out with one of the big bottom Kardashian girls, Klovis or Kludgie, any way sumpin’ like that. See, Grendel’s moms was really cranked on that Danisk lutherfiske, smokin’ it night and day. Made her like really ultra mean and violent. Grendel’s moms must have been one big honking broad cause she upped and like ripped the arms and legs off of anybody that looked cross-eyed at her or said something nasty about her ugly hairy fat lay-about son of hers, a real bog potato.
Any way back to the bones, the old man come across thes really messed up dead Dane type dudes when it hit him. Baby mom would love to have a nice pelvic necklace, something that even them Kardashian skanks didn’t have. Dude sat down to toke some right weed and ‘shrooms. Whoops, wrong mushrooms. End of story.
Oh, and all those jars with heads and body parts they discovered, they was offerings to DAh-mer, cause some other sciencie guys said something similar about jars of what looked like pigs feet and purpley egggs. True scoop dat.
Well, I’ve learned how to use the search option effectively to insure I never post repeats. But, when I got to the FR page, thinking to myself do I really need to check for this obscure story? NAW!! As they never assume. Thanks very much!
Better twice than not at all!
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