Posted on 02/14/2018 11:16:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
"They somehow seem to differentiate between humans and animals but also animals in different categories," Hallgren says.
Two of the human skulls were female, four were male, and two belonged to people between the ages of 20 and 35. The researchers also found a nearly complete infant skeleton, whose tiny bones suggest the individual had been stillborn or died shortly after birth.
The victims' skulls show obvious injuries. There is blunt force trauma near the tops of the heads, and they also appear to have other injuries that show signs of healing. The female skulls have injuries on the back and right sides of the heads, and the male skulls each had one single blow to the top of the head and face.
"These are not people who have been recently smashed in the head and then put on display," Hallgren says. "More than half of them had this healed trauma to the head."
The researchers don't yet know what weapons were used to inflict the damage, and the wounds couldn't be directly tied to the cause of death. DNA analysis is ongoing, but they've found that two of the men are related.
"They are probably not brothers but could be cousins or more distantly related," Hallgren says.
We know that the team uncovered 400 bits of wooden stakes, some of which had been used to mount objects that have long since fallen
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LOL!
Thanks...that’s a keeper.
Trepanning?
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Thanks for the pings!
Skull lollipops for giants.
I didn’t read the article - but the headline is pretty clever.
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Heh - I just got lucky. “Headline”!
Is that the presidential portrait?
It would have been nice if the part of the article you posted gave a clue as to where these remains were found. Scandinavia. 8000 years old. Any DNA? Were they blond, or dark skinned ;) ?
LOL!.................No, unfortunately the stick is in the wrong place...............
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How could you post a thread about heads on pikes, and not invite the fellow freeper?
The motive is simple: Warning: This is my territory. Don’t lose your head and trespass on it.
Actually, I was pinged by Delta 21 last week, but I think the idea of mounting heads on poles or pikes as both warning and accountancy is now sufficiently widespread so as not to require my constant encouragement.
That said, thanks for the thought!
Heads On Pikes!
Yeah, the eggheads were bending over backwards to avoid saying, "they made a sacrifice to their gods of the enemies they'd slain."
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