Archaeologists Find Prehistoric Mass Grave With Headless Skeletons [38, Vrable, Slovakia]

Heritage Daily ^ | January 13, 2023 | Markus Milligan

[SunkenCiv]

Image Credit: Prof. Dr. Martin Furholt - Archaeology/Kiel University

[SunkenCiv]

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-headless-skeletons-settlement-trench-year-old.html

https://www.iflscience.com/a-massacre-or-something-stranger-37-headless-skeletons-raise-questions-67104

[wildcard_redneck]

Eurotrash doing Eurotrash things......

[SunkenCiv]

At least with the Egyptian kid it was dogs.

[Rurudyne]

Someone sure knew how to get a head.

[alloysteel]

The heads were most likely mounted on pikes to further delineate the boundary markers. SOMETHING had to be done with the rest of the corpses.

[yuleeyahoo]

Putin’s fault!

[dsrtsage]

A nearby rock wall had a several hundred year old graffiti glyph in old Gaelic which read..There can be only one - CM

[marktwain]

The south-western of the three settlements was surrounded by a 1.3 km-long double ditch that likely served as boundary marker rather than serving any defensive purpose.

On what basis do they reach this remarkable conclusion?

It is Rousseauian "noble savage" idiocy. "Boundary Marker" my a$$. It was a defensive barrier.

Read "War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage". It is full of examples of this sort of insanity, and it points it out.

[Reily]

Good book!

[Tupelo]

I wonder.
I remember reading that some stoneage societies, decapitated their dead and kept it as a way to remember the dead.

[Clutch Martin]

Perhaps the heads resided on the end of a pike after the detachment.

[frank ballenger]

Informative.

The “noble savage” myth was overdue to be, uh, buried.😇

[frank ballenger]

The Bones show inspiration Kathy Reichs could solve it all.
She has written 22 books now and still testifies as an expert witness. Maybe the cases in the photo are sort of closed now although there is no statute of limitations on murder.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/r/kathy-reichs/

[HYPOCRACY]

They needed the heads for sports. Nobody invented the ball yet.

[BenLurkin]

The Birth of Civilisation - Cult of the Skull (8800 BC to 6500 BC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90oSidoHUY

[Vermont Lt]

They probably had a state dinner coming up and they needed drinking cups.

The Slavs used to do that stuff.

[ought-six]

“Eurotrash doing Eurotrash things......”

I think if you took the time to read about the histories of various cultures you’d find that the “Eurotrash,” as you call them, were not unique in their practices.

[ought-six]

“The heads were most likely mounted on pikes to further delineate the boundary markers. SOMETHING had to be done with the rest of the corpses.”

Could be.

[wildcard_redneck]

"I think if you took the time to read about the histories of various cultures you’d find that the “Eurotrash,” as you call them, were not unique in their practices."

I have a BA in anthropology and I have read the histories of many cultures both past and present and I feel justified in saying "Eurotrash doing Eurotrash things......"

I can hear your little, lefty, nasal whine when I hear "I think if you took the time to read about the histories of various cultures". I am 100% Northern European and I feel confident in my rejection of the reptiles running the continent.