Impossible, unless Europeans and or Climate Change were to blame, and reporting this is another example of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism. /sar.
Posted on 02/04/2020 9:34:56 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists have uncovered a 350-year-old massacre in Alaska that occurred during a war that may have started over a dart game. The discovery reveals the gruesome ways the people in a town were executed and confirms part of a legend that has been passed down over the centuries by the Yup'ik people.
A recent excavation in the town of Agaligmiut (which today is often called Nunalleq) has uncovered the remains of 28 people who died during the massacre and 60,000 well-preserved artifacts...
Some of the 28 people found "had been tied up with grass rope and executed," said Knecht, adding that "they were face down and some of them had holes in the back of their skulls from [what] looks like a spear or an arrow." ...
The massacre occurred during what historians called the "bow and arrow wars," a series of conflicts in Alaska during the 17th century. According to one Yup'ik legend, the conflict started during a game of darts when one boy accidently hit another in the eye with a dart. The father of the injured boy knocked out both eyes of the boy who caused the injury, the story goes. Then, a relative of the boy who had both eyes knocked out retaliated, the conflict escalating as other family members of the two boys got involved. The dart-game melee eventually resulted in a series of wars across Alaska and the Yukon.
"There's a number of different tales," Knecht said, adding that "what we do know is that the bow and arrow wars were during a period of time [called] the little ice age, where it went from quite a bit warmer than it is now to quite a bit colder in a very short period of time."
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
And less dangerous by a mile. Lawn darts are banned.
Impossible, unless Europeans and or Climate Change were to blame, and reporting this is another example of bigotry, xenophobia, and racism. /sar.
Cabin fever from long winters, in extreme places, have often times resulted in murder, but 60,000 dead is a major war 1670.
I would be curious as to how many were still alive at the end.
OOOPs, I just noticed a huge problem in my comment.
60,000 is the number of artifacts.
Time to take the dogs for a walk.
The white people in Europe caused the temporary cooling mentioned in the article - climate change. And we all know that climate change is racist.
“Yukon fight in here! This is the war room!”
“Everybody maintain your Bering!”
As Mom always said “Don’t you touch that. You’ll poke your eye out!’’
Jarts. Now we know the rest of the story
You’ll put your eye out, kid
As a kid, my mother always cautioned me to be careful with darts or else I might put someone’s eye out. Its a good thing she didn’t know about this or she would have been telling me that if I wasn’t careful, I might case a massacre.
The world was such a peaceful place before evil guns were invented. I’m sure banning them would return us to the garden of Eden from which we have all fallen.
Put your mind Inuit!..............
Inna gadda da vida, baby...
Its all fun and games until someone puts an eye out...
“where it went from quite a bit warmer than it is now to quite a bit colder in a very short period of time.”
Hunh.
Weird.
They admitted that it was quite a bit warmer then, yet the warmunists keep insisting that it’s warmer now than it ever has been.
Weird..
Forbidden Passion (No, its not one of THOSE sites. Safe for work.)
We are in such a sad state of affairs as a nation that now that its been banned here we have to rely on German engineering to further Americanize the game.
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"dart" -- I don't think that means what most people think it means...
TXnMA
You’ll love this video... watch it until then end. Hint: we should have all been burned, maimed, or worse.
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