Posted on 07/26/2005 1:07:44 PM PDT by Little Bill
Site of Western Extension to Stratigraphical Museum at Knossos
In a LM IB context in excavations just to one side of the Royal Road some distance northwest of the Little Palace at Knossos, 327 children's bones were found in a burnt deposit in the basement of a building christened the North House.
Originally attributed to between eight and eleven children provisionally aged between ten and fifteen years old, between 21% and 35% of these bones, which included skull fragments as well as other bones, all found in an unarticulated heap, exhibited "fine knife marks, exactly comparable to butchery marks on animal bones, resulting from the removal of meat.
Cannibalism seems clearly indicated. Among possible interpretations are ritual usage (otherwise unexampled in the open town of Knossos) and lack of all other food because of poisoning or other deleterious effect of gases or fall out from intense activity of the volcano of Thera."
Subsequent analysis has revealed that the bones in fact need belong to no more than four individuals, two of whom can be quite precisely aged by means of their teeth to eight and twelve years. Some phalanges (finger or toe bones) from young humans, a human vertebra with a knife cut, some marine shells, some shells of edible snails, and burnt earth were found filling a pithos in the "Cult Room Basement", a room across a corridor from the "Room of the Children's Bones" in which the cache of 327 children's bones were found
The context within the pithos suggests that some portions of young children were cooked together with a variety of other edible substances. No spices indicated.
Together with the major concentration of children's bones were also found some sheep bones including articulated vertebrae. One of the latter had a cut mark in a position indicating that the beast's throat had been slit, so that sheep sacrifice may have been connected with the death and dismemberment of the children, whom forensic experts have established to have been in perfect health at the time of their deaths.
There is unfortunately no method by which these skeletons can be accurately sexed, so we remain ignorant as to whether they belonged to boys, girls, or both.
Could there be some connection between these butchered children, the youths and maidens who jump bulls in Minoan representational art, and the tribute of Athenian boys and girls paid to the legendary king Minos to which Theseus, the heroic Athenian prince, put a stop with the loving help of Minos' daughter Ariadne by killing the monstrous Minotaur?
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What does that mean in English?
Order of Bull and side orders of Child, hmn!
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Late Minoian Level 1b, a way to date a site based on a similarity to sites at a similar level, time thing.
Did you see the National Geographic dig at the base of the main Temple of Mexico City a while back, fresh meat coming down the steps, buttocks, legs, and the meaty parts of the arms cut off, add chilli's, tomatoes and mix, read Gibbon for Aztec stew.
Yup. They were "white folk".
Absolutely, Gimbas and the rest of the PC femonazis who adored the peaceful nonviolent Med, before the coming of the Indo-European patriarchal oppressors, who destroyed the Matriarchy and subjected womyn to slavery.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/760183/posts
Try this for peaceful Native Americans
Wow! I hadn't heard of that find. Thank for the tip.
Of course, it can't be true. Before Christopher Columbus showed up there was no violence in the Americas. It was a perfect utopia with "flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles". ;o
http://www.huacas.com/page140.htm
Another Native American Civilization living at Peace with Nature.
That was Christy Turner. He shut them up when he found a mummified corpolite (turd) that contained human bone and protein.
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most interesting.
I recently heard the first logical explanation of why the Anasazi moved into cliff dwellings after centuries living in much more convenient housing on mesa tops.
If some of the neighbors had recently converted to a human sacrifice and cannibalism cult from the South, I think I might want to live someplace inaccessible, too.
I once did a paper on human sacrifice in the Mediterranean civlizations. It was not really uncommon and indications are found throughout the art and literature of ancient times.
Remember that when Abraham was ordered to sacrifice his son, he didn't respond with, "Are you crazy or am I?"
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