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Everything but the faces (Image: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas)

Stone Age skull-smashers spark a cultural mystery

1 posted on 08/17/2012 5:42:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Probably had it coming...


2 posted on 08/17/2012 5:44:09 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
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To: SunkenCiv

"I'm crushing your head. Crush, crush crush."

4 posted on 08/17/2012 5:46:51 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: SunkenCiv

Cuts down on the zombies.


5 posted on 08/17/2012 5:46:51 PM PDT by bgill
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To: SunkenCiv
No one knows why Neolithic societies buried clusters of skulls -- often near or underneath settlements.

Just ask around, it's still done today - plenty.

The Vatican, the Paris crypts, Skull & Bones, etc.

Same reasons, too.


6 posted on 08/17/2012 5:47:55 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SunkenCiv

There were muzzies back then? Who knew?


8 posted on 08/17/2012 5:58:33 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Harry Reid [PERVERT-NV] has Vickie-the-goat in lingerie & stiletto heels, tied-up in his office.)
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To: SunkenCiv
All this stuff always reminds me of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252/ref=la_B000AP72G0_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1345252379&sr=1-4

Archaeologists of the future go through a hotel and surmise that we prayed to a toilet.

10 posted on 08/17/2012 6:15:07 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SunkenCiv

Must have had a zombie attack and found the only way to kill them was by smashing their faces. So to keep further zombies from rising from the grave, they had to dig up their skulls and smash their faces in.

Or at least that’s how I picture the screenplay to go.


15 posted on 08/17/2012 6:57:42 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: SunkenCiv
Probably got smashed when they were dug up....of course that's too logical.....so...send me a lot of GRANT MONEY....and I'll figure it out!!

Nohing cultural about ONE SINGLE SITE with smashed skulls.

Maybe the bodies were under a building.

19 posted on 08/17/2012 7:40:42 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SunkenCiv
Most of the skulls belonged to adult males between 18 and 30 years old.

It was likely tribal warfare: after a surprise attack on a rival tribe, the raiders threw the heads of the killed defenders into the water well.

Modern leftist academics refuse to give any recognition the special evolutionary pressure that drove human evolution at high speed while leaving all other plants and animals untouched. That special pressure originates from the very same source that leftism does: envy.

21 posted on 08/18/2012 2:51:21 AM PDT by Reeses (An optimist believes the Republicans nominated their best. A pessimist knows they did.)
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To: SunkenCiv

No mystery here. After the divorce, where he got skinned by the ex-wife, the in-laws got a face-bashing to show the contempt of the husband for their family.


22 posted on 08/18/2012 1:29:18 PM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk oMnly to me.)
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