Posted on 04/22/2019 10:28:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
It's an age often described as one of social unrest, leading to an "apocalyptic nightmare of violence, warfare, and cannibalism." A Neolithic mass grave in Germany shows the idea may not be far wrong... Christian Meyer and his fellow researchers now believe they have enough evidence to explain "conclusively" what happened at the site of a mass grave in Schöneck-Kilianstädten, near Frankfurt, around 5207-4849 BC. If they are right, their findings may help our understanding of early social unrest among the first Central European farmers of the Neolithic era... The site at Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals a "new violence-related pattern: the intentional and systematic breaking of lower limbs." At least 26 people at the site were tortured and systematically beaten before being thrown into a pit. Most of the victims were men and children aged between 12 and 13 years. The researchers found evidence of only two women, estimated to have been older than 40. It suggests any younger women -- for example, mothers of the children -- were abducted... Their theory chimes with evidence found at two other Neolithic massacre sites: one at Talheim, Germany and the other at Asparn/Schletz, Austria... Among the men and children in the mass grave, Meyer and the team found many damaged skulls, fractured calves and shins... Meyer says the three sites together prove that as early as 7000 years ago, acts of "collective violence" were common. This period also saw humans begin to settle, to build and to live off the land and witnessed the widespread flourishing of a form of pottery known as Linear Pottery culture.
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I just had a troubling thought...
Are all those people from all those mass deaths...
Still voting democrat?
I am able to post the excerpt in the reply window and it keeps the paragraphs. Does it not work on article posting? Have you tried posting the excerpt source code instead of HTML? Blocks of unformatted text are hard to read.
Anyone that thinks we are above that capability is an idiot
It was a short excerpt, it's one paragraph long, and didn't need a paragraph break.
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