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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


2 posted on 01/22/2023 1:14:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


6 posted on 01/22/2023 1:16:25 PM PST by alloysteel (People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov)
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A nearby rock wall had a several hundred year old graffiti glyph in old Gaelic which read..There can be only one - CM


8 posted on 01/22/2023 1:17:35 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: SunkenCiv; All
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.

9 posted on 01/22/2023 1:20:47 PM PST by marktwain
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To: SunkenCiv

Probably find the skulls on the lintels and fence posts of the homes of the folks from the other village that slaughtered them all.

Headhunting was a thing for a long time.

Lots of majik in them there heads. Give good power to them what takes ‘em.


56 posted on 01/23/2023 11:11:06 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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