The bones revealed signs that the victims did not die naturally
The discovery in the caves has baffled historians for decades
Posted on 07/01/2011 8:59:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A new investigation has revealed that human skeletons discovered in caves on the North York Moors were likely to have been the victims of ritual sacrifice 2,000 years ago. A forensic examination of their bones, for the BBC's History Cold Case series, has revealed evidence that at least one of them had been scalped... While it has always been clear the bones had experienced some kind of trauma it has taken a new forensic investigation to reveal more about how these people might have met their deaths. Evidence suggests the caves were used by people from the late Neolithic period, about 4,500 years ago, until the late Romano-British period in the fourth and fifth centuries AD... Their investigation focused in particular on a tangle of 2,000 year-old bones, possibly those of a family, found in Slip Gill Windy Pit in the 1950s. It was a trauma in the jaw bone of one of the skulls which could have only been made with a sharp instrument and led to the first conclusion that the victims did not die naturally... To confirm that theory the team looked at bones found in neighbouring pits. Those too showed signs of blunt force trauma, confirming inter-personal violence as well as a shin bone which had markings that were consistent with the removal of flesh from bone. Further examination of one of the skulls from Slip Gill showed similar markings, parallel cut marks, leading to the conclusion that at least one of the victims was probably scalped. The cutting marks on the skull are the final piece of evidence that at least one of the Slip Gill skeletons was almost certainly ritually killed.
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The bones revealed signs that the victims did not die naturally
The discovery in the caves has baffled historians for decades
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... until evil, white Europeans came and gave them syphillis, assault weapons and worst of all, capitalism.
Hardly a surprise since the Romans reported the Celts were doing human sacrifices at the time of their invasion.
So what has changed?
I see that cannibalism, even the suggestion, is still taboo.
Burp!! Pass me a driumstick, I mean thighbone!
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