Image credit: Ludes et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadl3374 (2024)
Posted on 04/13/2024 10:36:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The research found evidence of the "incaprettamento" method of murder at 14 Neolithic sites in Europe.
The murder of sacrificial victims by "incaprettamento" — tying their neck to their legs bent behind their back, so that they effectively strangled themselves — seems to have been a tradition across much of Neolithic Europe, with a new study identifying more than a dozen such murders over more than 2,000 years.
The study comes after a reassessment of an ancient tomb that was discovered more than 20 years ago at Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux near Avignon, in southern France. The tomb mimics a silo, or pit where grain was stored, and it held the remains of three women who were buried there about 5,500 years ago...
To investigate the idea of human sacrifice at Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Crubézy, who worked on the initial discovery of the tomb, and colleagues examined earlier archaeological studies of tomb sites throughout Europe. The team included forensic pathologist Bertrand Ludes, of Paris Cité University and the study's lead author.
They found evidence of 20 probable cases of sacrificial murders using incaprettamento at 14 Neolithic (New Stone Age) sites dating to between 5400 and 3500 B.C. They also found papers describing Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) rock art in the Addaura Cave in Sicily, made between 14000 and 11000 B.C., that seems to depict two human figures bound in the incaprettamento manner.
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OJ might understand.
These Neolithic broads were askin’ for it. [burp!]
A tradition, huh? And people wonder why the modern world is so messed up.
These are the gruesome practices that Christianity eliminated worldwide.
It could easily be a manifestation the usual "ritual purposes" dodge when something puzzling is found. These are probably just executions/murders of captives or conquests.
It stopped climate change.
The climate change gods will only accept the sacrifice of climate change cult true believers.
The mafia used/uses this. Italy finally got fed up with this and other practices by the pathologically violent criminal underclass and chucked a bunch of them in prison.
Yes, the rack and burning at the stake was preferred.
So much for Rousseau’s “noble savage”.
LOL! 😂
Saved me the trouble.👍
“Neolithic women in Europe were tied up and buried alive in ritual sacrifices, study suggests”
“These Neolithic broads were askin’ for it. [burp!]”
Ritual? Or punishment for crimes committed. Or POW executions? Debt collections.
“Ritual” is to loosly defined here, murdered is probably the correct termimology but that’s forensic observation not scientifically “determined.” Oh, the games the scholarly play.
“Put a shine on it Desmond and call it ritual!”
“These are the gruesome practices that Christianity eliminated worldwide.”
Yes, correct.
Presumably just the ugly ones......
No wonder why the Neolithic women welcomed the Indo-European men.
Ah. The past. Those golden years of country life and innocence.
Did that accomplish anything?
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It helped drive up the costs a labor a tad bit.
Who knew the Neolithic age had Karens?
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