Carthage's Other Wars:
Carthaginian Warfare Outside the
'Punic Wars' Against Rome
by Dexter Hoyos
Posted on 10/07/2020 9:36:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The work by the team involved studying skeletal remains found at a dig site of a settlement once known as La Hoya, in what is now Spain. The dig site was discovered in 1935, but only recently have the remains unearthed there been studied.
In all, the researchers examined the skeletal remains of 13 people -- nine adults, two adolescent girls, a child and an infant girl, all of whom had died sometime between 365 and 195 BC. What was most striking was the means by which the people met their death. One of the adults had been decapitated -- and one of the adolescent girls had been killed after an arm was cut off. The severed limb was found several meters away with copper bracelets encircling the arm bones. The researchers also found no evidence indicating that the victims had been buried -- instead, they had been left where they fell. Some of the remains also had evidence of burns of the kind often suffered by house fire victims.
The researchers suggest the nature of the injuries to the people in the village are evidence of a massacre -- an enemy had arrived and killed everyone in the village. Prior research has shown that the village never recovered. Such an action, the researchers note, suggests that the Iron Age on the Iberian Peninsula was a violent period. They further suggest that the Iron Age in Europe might have been more brutal than researchers have thought.
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“Shows how ridiculous the ‘give peace a chance’ idea is.”
If only those brutes had had the opportunity to attend Harvard or Yale, they would have seen the futility of violence and laid down their clubs.
Very true. The meek have been systemically slaughtered leaving behind genes in the violent people who reproduced.
[snip] After the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca crushed a mercenary revolt in Africa and trained a new army consisting of Numidians along with mercenaries and other infantry. In 236 BC, he led an expedition to Iberia where he hoped to gain a new empire for Carthage to compensate for the territories that had been lost in the recent conflicts with Rome and to serve as a base for vengeance against the Romans. [/snip]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthaginian_Iberia
It’ll be nice if these remains can be DNA-tested, and RC dated, to help nail it down. I’d not be surprised if these turned out to antedate the Carthaginians, or if not, to BE Carthaginians. The pre-Carthaginian Iberian locals were no bargain.
Well, that’s an interesting thing to consider.
Where in the world do publications find people who think this way?
*******
Academics.
Academics have their heads so far up their fantasy that they can’t do reality very well.
Archaeologists discover Iron Age massacre, frozen in time
https://www.9news.com.au/world/archaeologists-discover-iron-age-massacre-frozen-in-time/161c50c5-720c-40bb-a3df-93b2a21542fb
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