Posted on 12/04/2009 1:19:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv
At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests. Cannibalism at the village, now called Herxheim, may have occurred during ceremonies in which people from near and far brought slaves, war prisoners or other dependents for ritual sacrifice, propose anthropologist Bruno Boulestin of the University of Bordeaux... A social and political crisis in central Europe at that time triggered various forms of violence, the researchers suspect... during Europe's early Neolithic period, when farming first spread... facial bones were smashed beyond recognition
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Probably one of Soros’ ancestors was the cause.
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