Warriors' Bones Reveal Bizarre Iron Age Rituals

Live Science ^ | | July 31, 2014 08:16am ET | Stephanie Pappas, Contributor

[BenLurkin]

Waited a year to collect their KIAs? Sounds to me like these were the losers, and not the winners

[SteveH]

pinnnnn

[SteveH]

woops, dannnnng keyboard bounnnnnce

:-)

[JimRed]

Waited a year to collect their KIAs? Sounds to me like these were the losers, and not the winners

After the first couple of days without refrigeration, that would be a job no one wanted, win or lose.

[BenLurkin]

A skull of an Iron Age warrior discovered in a bog in Denmark shows signs of battle. Credit: Ejvind Hertz, Skanderborg Museum

Four pelvises strung on a stick were found at Alken Enge in Denmark. Credit: Peter Jensen, Aarhus Universitet

[CJ Wolf]

yeah but if they waited a year, be ok to have that job.

[BigEdLB]

four pelvises were found strung on a stickThose whacky Danes...

[mikrofon]

I suppose their hands would show the effects from constant or improper dunking ...

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Bodies of Sweds I should think.

[Does so]

Easier to carry to the lake for dumping...

[SunkenCiv]

Report: Ancient Roman graveyard found in suburban Copenhagen
IHT | October 10, 2007 | Associated Press / Roskilde Dagblad
Posted on 10/11/2007 2:55:59 PM by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1909864/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SteveH.

[Bigg Red]

Sounds to me like these were the losers, and not the winners

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That was my thought, as well.

[P.O.E.]

Along with the pelvises strung like beads on a stick, there is evidence that leg bones and thighbones were sorted, too, he said.

Mrs. Bronze Age warrior was overheard to say, "I know it's a strange hobby but at least he's not out carousing."

[Smokin' Joe]

If you wanted to stop tripping over the bones, what better way than to round them up and dump them somewhere? A bog is a great spot, and somewhere you aren't likely to walk, anyway.

It seems it would be easier to carry a bunch of pelvises on a stick than in a stack, so why not? Leg bones would be easier to carry with other leg bones, and so forth. (Then you could stop tripping over some corpse when you went out to take a leak at night).

[null and void]

I wish tiamat (”Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno-World!”) were here to ‘splain this...

[Straight Vermonter]

After the first couple of days without refrigeration, that would be a job no one wanted, win or lose.

My grandfather arrive in the Philippines shortly after fighting ended there in WWII. His job was to collect bodies that washed up on shore.

My mother said it changed him forever.

[Grimmy]

Might also have been a whacko with OCD (the arranged bones) just moved into that area and had to follow his twitch to clean up.

[BenLurkin]

Yup.

A “shaman” or “sorcerer” perhaps.

[colorado tanker]

Fascinating. The Danes must have had a lively commerce with Rome for there to be a big enough community to support their own cemetery.