A digitized representation of Burial 85 shows the burial style and relative positioning of the seven men. (Image courtesy Eerkens et al., used with permission.)
Posted on 10/02/2015 11:34:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...Now, chemical analysis has revealed that the men were far from home when they were killed, up to several days’ journey from where they were born and raised.
The discovery is only the most recent example of violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the region, anthropologists say. But it bears important lessons about the nature of conflict and warfare in pre-contact California...
The grave was unearthed in 2012 during the construction of a shopping center in the town of Pleasanton, in the Amador Valley just east of Oakland...
One of the men suffered a severe blow above the left eye, causing fractures that radiated through the side of his skull.
Another took a blow above the right eye, and a flake of obsidian was found by his pelvis.
Still another contained a biface, or knife-shaped blade, made of chert between his ribs.
All of the remains returned the same radiocarbon range, dating to around the year 850 CE.
(Excerpt) Read more at westerndigs.org ...
A digitized representation of Burial 85 shows the burial style and relative positioning of the seven men. (Image courtesy Eerkens et al., used with permission.)
Boy, there's a shock.
I was completely unfamiliar with the pre-contact history of California.
The information about five major mitochondrial DNA lines among Native Americans is also completely new for me.
Bttt.
” the men were far from home when they were killed, up to several days’ journey from where they were born and raised.”
This illustrates why men don’t ask for directions when travelling. It marks you as an “outsider”; and it’s not good to be an outsider in a bad neighbourhood.
Proto-American Lives Matter!
{”This illustrates why men don’t ask for directions when travelling. It marks you as an “outsider”; and it’s not good to be an outsider in a bad neighbourhood.”}
Best Comment Award!
Wish I had said it and will tell people I did. :)
“C.E.”?!
What is that, Century Entertainment?
Work like this helps maintain my faith in real science. Selective tree-ring analysis to support a political agenda represents science gone wrong. The study reported here shows what can happen when intelligent people apply scientific tools and methods to real data.
And no mention of “climate change”.
Pre-contact is a term that’s bound for oblivion, I’m sure, because it’s Eurocentric. :’) What, only EUROPEANS were CAPABLE of CROSSING the OCEAN?!? RACIST! ;’) And, just like that, the Clovis-first-and-only people turn into Ezra Pound. Or some more appropriate analogy.
Hey, we wouldn’t get lost if *someone* wouldn’t distract us with constant cries of “where are we?” and “why don’t you stop and ask for directions” because *that person* is completely unable to understand how to get from a to b.
“Crazy-effers’”.
;’)
The dead guys were all Deniers, that’s the real reason they were killed. ;’)
There’s a Stone Age site somewhere along the Nile valley, 15,000 years old or so; if it had been made of more durable materials it would be called a city due to its size. All that remained were the post-holes and many thousands of arrow- and spear-heads from the battle that resulted in the burning of the whole place to the ground and permanent abandonment of the site. Sounds an awful lot like a war to me. :’) The notion of the Noble Savage is long gone, or I like to think so, and at its heart is a bigoted notion. Before 1492 (and before every other point of contact, IMHO the seas have never been much of an obstacle) tribe attacked tribe, city-state destroyed city-state, it was one big long vicious kill-o-rama.
EARLY HISTORY OF COMPTON
year 850 CE?
“The discovery is only the most recent example of violence among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the region, anthropologists say. But it bears important lessons about the nature of conflict and warfare in pre-contact California.”
...but I just thought they smoked peace pipes and hummed at Mt. Shasta during the Harmonic Convergence. Am I misinformed?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
